CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYDIVISION OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND COMPUTING

CURTIN ENGINEERING FACULTY

RESEARCHAND DEVELOPMENTREPORT2005

Contents1. Overview.........................................................................................................................22. Summary........................................................................................................................3

2.1 Publications - Section 6............................................................................................32.2 Research Income – Section 7..................................................................................32.3 Research Supervision – Section 9...........................................................................32.4 Conference Participation – Section 10.....................................................................3

3. Research and Development Highlights......................................................................44. Recognition and Awards..............................................................................................55. Areas of Research.........................................................................................................56. Publications...................................................................................................................6

6.1 Journal Papers.........................................................................................................66.2 Conference Papers................................................................................................116.3 Books.....................................................................................................................246.4 Book Chapters.......................................................................................................24

7. Research Income........................................................................................................257.1 Australian Research-Council Grants (ARC) – Curtin University............................257.2 Australian Research- Council Grants (ARC) – Externally Administered................287.3 Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Grants........................................................287.4 Industry Grants.......................................................................................................307.5 Donations...............................................................................................................347.6 Internal Grants.......................................................................................................34

8. Scholarships................................................................................................................359. Research Supervision................................................................................................37

9.1 Doctor of Philosophy – Completed........................................................................379.2 Doctor of Philosophy – In Progress.......................................................................379.3 Masters by Research – Complete..........................................................................479.4 Masters by Research – In Progress.......................................................................47

10. International Conference Participation.....................................................................5110.1 Academic Staff.....................................................................................................5110.2 Research Associates/Students............................................................................53

11. National Conference Travel.......................................................................................5311.1 Academic Staff.....................................................................................................5311.2 Research Associates/Students............................................................................55

12. International Visitors to the Faculty..........................................................................5513. Seminars by External Speakers................................................................................5614. Staffing..........................................................................................................................57

List of TablesTable 1. Academic Staff in 2005........................................................................................57Table 2. Emeritus Professors in 2005...............................................................................59Table 3. Research Fellows in 2005...................................................................................59Table 4. General Staff in 2005.............................................................................................60

1. OverviewResearch, alongside teaching and learning, is a core activity of Curtin Engineering Faculty. Over the last decade a rapid increase in R&D output has occurred. Most importantly, research is now being conducted by the vast majority of academic staff in the Faculty as will be evidenced below. This broad capacity is the hallmark of a mature university faculty: it underpins a unifying culture of scholarship and provides a research stability that is robust to internal or external changes. The Faculty’s research portfolio has been built to be sustainable. It incorporates a balanced range of discipline areas and utilises the right mix of expertise in theoretical, computational and experimental approaches. This ensures its long-term viability, potential to grow and ability to expand into emerging research areas.

Curtin Engineering Faculty comprises four Departments, namely Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. In January 2006, the Department of Computing left the Faculty. In order to provide a snapshot of the present Faculty’s research activity and outputs in 2005, this report covers the activities and outputs of its four constituent Departments and does not include those of the Department of Computing.

Research is conducted alongside teaching and learning. Accordingly, the achievements recorded in this report should be placed in the context of the teaching and learning conducted by the Faculty. In 2005, the Faculty had a teaching load of 1,675.5 engineering-cluster EFTSL (equivalent full-time teaching student load – the actual teaching conducted by the Faculty, thus excluding service teaching provided by other areas) and an EFTSU enrolment (equivalent full-time student unit – the actual number of students enrolled in the Faculty with part-time students included as fractional contributions) of 1,921.2. The total number of (equivalent full-time) academic staff employed on recurrent funding was 51.65. These data yield staff-to-student ratios (SSR’s) on taught load and enrolled load respectively as 1:32.4 and 1:37.2. (Note that when sessional teachers are included, the staff complement increases to 64.2 using the AVCC formula.)

The proportion of academic staff conducting research in 2005 can be gauged as follows. Of the EFT academic staff complement in 2005, 84% were research-active as measured by achievement in at least one of the following research indicators:

1. Research-paper publication in 2005

2. External research funding obtained in 2005

3. Research-student supervision conducted in 2005

The spread of research activity can be further profiled by noting that 25% of staff made achievements in all three of the above three indicators, 47% of staff achieved in two or more the above indicators and 84% of staff achieved in one or more of the above indicators.

The Faculty congratulates each and every one of the academic staff whose research activity contributes to the entries in this report. While the conduct of research can be personally satisfying, it does require very substantial effort, the application of expertise that has to be built up over many years, the maintenance of currency in a research area, and a singular form of dedication to the pursuit and attainment of new knowledge. The Faculty also recognises the contributions of staff whose names do not appear in the outputs listed in these pages because they have focused their endeavours in the support of the Faculty’s teaching programs; this too is a valid and essential contribution to the research effort of the Faculty. Finally, the Faculty also recognises and applauds the general staff – secretarial, administrative and technical – who so effectively support the core academic activities of Curtin Engineering Faculty.

Contact: Prof. Tony Lucey – Dean of Curtin Engineering Faculty

Document prepared by: Karen Sullivan – Faculty Projects Officer

2. SummaryThe per-staff metrics are based on the total of all academic staff in the Faculty that gives an EFT value of 51.65 in 2005 – See Table 2.

2.1 Publications - Section 6.

PUBLICATION CATEGORY TOTAL 2005 PER STAFF MEMBER 2005

Journals 62 1.20Conference Papers 162 3.14Books 4 0.08Book Chapters 13 0.25

Total 241 4.67

2.2 Research Income – Section 7. (Note that the dollar values here and in this document do not include any block-grant component.)

RESEARCH CATEGORYTOTAL 2005

GRANTS

TOTAL 2005$

PER STAFF MEMBER 2005

$Australian Research Council Grants (ARC) - Curtin 16 1,073,059 20,776

Australian Research Council Grants (ARC) – Externally Administered

2 172,320 3,336

Cooperative Research Centre Grants (CRC) 8 670,874 12,989

Industry Grants 25 938,526 18,171Donations 1 99,980 1,936Internal Grants 3 25,000 484

Total 55 $2,979,759 57,691

2.3 Research Supervision – Section 9.

SUPERVISION CATEGORY TOTAL 2005 PER STAFF MEMBER 2005Doctor of Philosophy - Completed 4 0.08Doctor of Philosophy - In Progress 99 1.92Masters by Research - Completed 4 0.08Masters by Research – In Progress 38 0.74

Total 145 2.81

2.4 Conference Participation – Section 10.

BY REGION TOTAL 2005 PER STAFF MEMBER 2005International 32 0.62National 20 0.39

Total 52 1.01

3. Research and Development HighlightsThe following examples serve to provide a flavour of research activities conducted in Curtin Engineering Faculty during 2005:

1. Centre for Fuels and Energy’s research into the spontaneous combustion of pyritic shales, sponstaneous explosion of industrial explosives on contact with pyritic shales and acid rock drainage due to pyritic shales, funded by BHPBilliton Iron Ore Pty Ltd operating one of the world’s largest iron ore mines in the Pilbara basin, northern WA, has resulted in significant productivity improvement and cost savings, in the order of estimated $75M per annum. Within the first 4 years of a 10-year campaign since 2002, the suite of new, simple and elegant techniques were developed by the Centre, based on reaction engineering and transport phenomena principles, which have revolutionised the operation and waste management practice in the mining industry in a number of ways, signifying the importance of innovative R&D in a tranditional industry. The research is led by Professor Dong-ke Zhang, FTSE, who is a fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

2. An ARC-Discovery research project commenced that seeks to determine the causes of snoring and sleep apnoea using a mechanical-systems approach to understand the complex flow-structure interactions that occur in the upper airway. Researchers from the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (clinical measurements) and Optical and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at UWA (instrumentation) are collaborators in the project. The project is led by Professor Tony Lucey.

3. Biofuel research led by Dr Hongwei Wu of the Department of Chemical Engineering has identified a Western Australian plant as being the source of the most energy efficient source in the increasingly important research area of sustainable fuels. The research is supported by an ARC-Discovery grant and WA State Government SEDO and Department of Conservation and Land Management project grant, both of which commenced in 2005. Dr Wu gave a number of invited presentations during the year, culminating in an invitation to give an address at the “Bioenergy and Biofuels in WA: Initiatives and Challenges” conference organised by the WA State Government for February 2006. Renewable energy and Biofuels are a priority research area for the WA State Government.

4. The 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference was organised and successfully held at Curtin. This conference is a premier international event for heat and mass transfer research community in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The conference was organised under the auspices of the Australasian Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society (AFTES), in collaboration with Engineers Australia. The organising committee of the 8AHMTC consisted of staff from the Mechanical Engineering Department. About 45 national and international research papers were accepted after review, for oral presentation. Five international experts delivered keynote lectures.

5. A research project entitled “Elevated water temperature in Water Corporation’s water distribution network to remote localities in Western Australia” commenced. The Water Corporation provides water to remote country towns in Western Australia by transporting water through both below ground and above ground pipelines. Due to excessive periods of sunshine, solar-induced heating of water in the above ground pipelines takes place, which affects the aesthetic qualities of drinking water. A research and development study was initiated by Associate Professor Tilak Chandratilleke and Dr. Ramesh Narayanaswamy from the Mechanical Engineering Department, in collaboration with specialists at the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre and the Water Corporation. The study aims to devise a viable strategy for temperature mitigation of drinking water.

4. Recognition and Awards1. Office of Science and Technology, 2005 Studentship Innovation award, $7k in 2005.2. Invited Mechatronics presentation by Dr Sam Cubero at International IEEE M2VIP

Mechatronics 2005 Conference, Manila.3. 2005 AUC Scholarship, awards a fully funded attendance to the World Wide Developer

Conference in San Francisco.4. 2005 Apple University Consortium “Pursuit of Knowledge” award (Mr Iain Murray).5. 2005 Cisco Network Academy Program (CNAP) “Outstanding Contribution to the CNAP

Asia Pacific” (Mr Iain Murray).6. Presentation to IEAust and the Tesla Forum (Dr Halit Eren).7. International Conference on Computer Methods & Advances in Geomechanics

presentations – Dr Yuxia Hu received a significant Junior/Senior Paper Award.

5. Areas of Research1. Fluid Dynamics2. Flow-Structure Interactions

3. Appropriate Technology4. Bio Mechanics

5. Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer6. Mechatronics/Robotics

7. Modular and Industrial Automation8. Materials

9. Vibration10. Intelligent Well Monitoring and Oil/Gas Applications

11. Machine Condition Monitoring12. Engineering Education

13. Renewable Energy Systems14. Stability of Power Systems

15. Power Electronics16. Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology – assistance for people with

disabilities17. Communication Electronics and Technology

18. Signal Theory and Signal Processing19. Control Systems

20. Wireless and Optical Fibre Networking21. Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems

22. Wireless Instruments and Instrumentation 23. Concrete technology and concrete structures

24. Geotechnical engineering - particularly in the environmental, mining mineral processing areas and offshore engineering areas

25. Water, wastewater and dam engineering 26. Structural strengthening and assessment of bridges

27. Construction management, construction economics, project evaluation

28. IT application in construction 29. Process Simulation, Modelling and Control

30. CFD Studies31. Crystallisation

32. Waste water Treatment and Desalination33. CCSD Activities

34. Nano Materials and Catalysis35. Coal Combustion and Gasification Science and Technology

36. Energy Research37. Biomass and Biofuel

6. Publications

6.1 Journal Papers

1. Safaeefar, P., ANG, H-M., Kuramochi, H., Asakuma, Y.K., Maeda, K., TADE, M.O. and Fukui, K. (2005)“Measurement and correlation of the solubility of MnSO4.H2O with MgSO4.7H2O in MeOH + H2O solution”, Fluid Phase Equilibria, Vol.238, pp180-185.

2. Agustina, T., ANG, H-M. and PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“A review of synergistic effect of photo catalysis and ozonation on the treatment of wastewater and air pollutants”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol.6, pp 264-273

3. CHAN, K.S., Shao, W. and Yeung, L.K (2005)“Ad Hoc Networks contention-based MAC protocols with erasure coding for wireless data networks”, Elsevier, Europe, Vol.3(1), pp495-506.

4. CUBERO, S.N. and Tjoe D. (2005) “A Low Cost Vision-Guided Car for Autonomous Racing Car Competitions”, Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2005, ISSN: 1908-1162, pp1-14.

5. CUBERO, S.N. and Frost B.C. (2005) "Development of a 3D Laser Scanner for Guiding a Six-Legged Walking Robot", Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2005, ISSN: 1908-1162, pp 26-36.

6. DAVIES, I. J., Ogasawara T., and Ishikawa T., (2005) “Distribution of fiber pullout length and interface shear strength within a single fiber bundle for an orthogonal 3-D woven Si-Ti-C-O fiber/Si-Ti-C-O matrix composite tested at 1100 oC in air”, Journal of European Ceramic Society, Vol.25(5), pp599-604.

7. Itatani K., Tanaka T., Suemasu H., Nozue A., and DAVIES, I. J., (2005) “Fabrication and fracture behaviour of silicon carbide composites containing chopped Tyranno Si-Al-C fibre”, Journal of Australasian Ceramic. Society, Vol.41(1), pp1-7.

8. Low I. M., Duraman N., Fulton J., Tezuka N., and DAVIES, I. J., (2005) “A comparative study of the microstructure-property relationship in human adult and baby teeth”, Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, Vol.26(6), pp145-152.

9. DAVIES, I. J., (2005) “Effect of variable radius on the initial creep rate of ceramic fibres”, Journal of Materials. Science, Vol.40(23), pp6187-6193.

10. ELLIOT, A. (2005)“Designer Fertilisers from Coal Waste”, Australasian Science, Vol.1(764), pp28-30.

11. Freij, S.J.H., Godelitsas, A and Putnis, A. (2005)“Crystal growth and dissolution processes at the calcite-water interface in the presence of zinc ions”, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol.273, pp535-545.

12. Hossain, M. S., HU, Y., Randolph, M. F. and White, D. (2005) “Limiting Cavity Depth for Spudcan Foundations Penetrating Clay”, Geotechnique, Vol.55(9), pp679-690.

13. Hossain, M. S. and HU, Y. (2005) “Soil Failure Mechanisms Associated with Spudcan Foundations on Clay”, Australian Goemechanics, Vol.40(3), pp103-110.

14. Liu, J., HU, Y. and Kong, X. (2005) “Continuous Penetration of Spudcan Foundation into Double Layered Soils”, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.19(2), pp309-342.

15. Hossain, M. S., HU, Y., Randolph, M. F. and White, D. (2005) “Limiting Cavity Depth for Spudcan Foundations Penetrating Clay”, Geotechnique, Vol. 55(9), pp679-690.

16. Hossain, M. S. and HU, Y. (2005) “Soil Failure Mechanisms Associated with Spudcan Foundations on Clay”, Australian Goemechanics, Vol.40(3), pp103-110.

17. Liu, J., HU, Y. and Kong, X. (2005) “Continuous Penetration of Spudcan Foundation into Double Layered Soils”, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.19(2), pp309-342.

18. Siada, A.A., ISLAM, S. M., LAWRANCE, W.B. (2005)“Stabilizing Control of Series Capacitor Power System Using a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Unit under unequal a-mode”, International Energy Journal Regional Energy, Resources Information Center, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand, Vol.6(1), pp97-110.

19. LI, Q., Rudolph, V., Wang, F.Y. and Horio, M. (2005)“A study of particle packing compression under fluid drag force by DEM simulations”Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing, Vol.13 (5/6), pp693-708.

20. LINDSAY, E.D. and Good, M.C. (2005)"Effects of Laboratory Access Modes Upon Learning Outcomes", IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol.48 (4), pp619-631 (Special Edition on Web-Based Teaching).

21. LOU, X., Vijayasekaran, S., Sugiharti, R. and Robeertson, T. (2005)“Morphological and topographic effect on calcification tendency of pHEMA hydrogels.” Biomaterials, Vol.26, pp5808-5817.

22. Balint, T.S. and LUCEY, A.D. (2005)“Instability of a cantilevered flexible plate in viscous channel flow” Fluids and Structures, Vol.20, pp893-912.

23. MASOUM, M.A.E., Jafarian, J., Ladjavardi, M., Fuchs, E,F. and Grady, W.M. (2005)“Fuzzy Approach for Optimal Placement and Sizing of Capacitor Banks in the Presence of Harmonics”, IEEE Transactions on Power Engineering, IEEE Power Engineering Society, New York, USA, Vol.20(2), pp1214-1216.

24. Tumbelaka, H., Borle, L.J. and NAYAR, C.V. (2005)“Analysis of a series inductance implementation on a three phase shunt active power filter for various types of nonlinear loads”, The Institution of Engineers, Australia , Sydney, Australia, Vol.2(3), pp223-231.

25. Arulrajah, A., NIKRAZ, H.R. and Bo, M.W. (2005)"Finite element modelling of marine clay deformation under reclamation fills", Ground Improvement, Vol.9(3) pp 105-118.

26. NIKRAZ, H.R, Arulrajah, A., and Bo, M.W. (2005)"In-situ testing of Singapore marine clay at Changi", Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Vol.23 pp 111-130.

27. PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“Photochemical reactors: Brighter is better”, TCE, Vol.1(764) , pp28-30.

28. RANGAN, V. B. , Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., and Sumajouw, M. (2005)"Fly Ash Based Geopolymer Concrete: A construction Material for Sustainable Development" Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.6(1) pp77-85.

29. RAY, M.S. (2005)“Equilibrium-staged separations: A bibliography update (2003)”, Separation Science and Technology, Vol.40(5), pp1145-1168.

30. Al-Jibouri, S., Mawdesley, M., SCOTT, D. and Gribble, S. J. (2005)"The use of a simulation model as a game for teaching management of projects in construction", International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.21(3) pp 1-8.

31. Ju, L.C ., TADE, M.O., Zhu, J.N. and Yao, H. M. (2005)“Prediction of hydrogen content in coal using back propagation neural network”Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing, Vol.13 (1/2), pp1777-184.

32. Doshi, V.A.K., VUTHALURU, H.B., and Bastow, T.B. (2005)“Investigations into the control of odour and viscosity of biomass oil derived from pyrolysis of sewage sludge” Fuel Processing Technology, Vol.86(8)pp 885-897.

33. Yao, H. M., VUTHALURU, H.B., TADE, M.O., and Djukanovic, D. (2005)“Artificial neural network-based prediction of hydrogen content of coal in power station boilers”, Fuel, Vol.84(12-13) pp 1535-1542.

34. VUTHALURU, H.B., PAREEK, V.K. and VUTHALURU, R. (2005)“Multiphase flow simulation of a simplified coal pulveriser”,  Fuel Processing Technology, Vol.86(11), pp1195-1205. 

35. WANG, S., Slovak, V., and Haynes, B.S. (2005)“Kinetic studies of graphon and coal-char reaction with NO and O2: direct non-linear regression from TG curves”, Fuel Processing Technology, Vol.86, pp 651-660.

36. WANG, S., Boyjoo, Y., and Choueib, A. (2005)“A comparative study of dye removal using fly ash treated by different methods”Chemosphere, Vol.60, pp1401-1407.

37. WANG, S., Boyjoo, Y. and A Choueib, A. (2005)“Zeolitisation of fly ash for sorption of dyes in aqueous solutions”, Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Vol.158A, pp161-168.

38. WANG, S. and Guin, J.A. (2005)“Mesoporous silica supported sulphated zirconium for etherification”, Studies in SurfaceScience and Catalysis, Vol.158B, pp1399-1404.

39. WANG, S., Boyjoo, Y., Choueib, A., Zhu, Z.J. (2005)“Removal of dyes from aqueous solution using fly ash and red mud”, Water Research, Vol.39 , pp129-138.

40. WANG, S., Zhu, Z.H., Coomes, A., Haghseresht, F. and Lu, G.Q. (2005)“The physical and surface chemical characteristics of activated carbons and the adsorption of methylene blue from wastewater”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol.284 , pp 440-446.

41. WANG, S., and Zhu, Z.H. (2005)“Sonochemical treatment of fly ash for dye removal from wastewater”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.126 , pp 91-95.

42. WANG, S., Boyjoo, Y., Choueib, A., Ng, E., WU, H., and Zhu, Z.H. (2005)“Technical Note - Role of unburnt carbon in adsorption of dyes on fly ash”Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Vol.80, pp1204-1209.

43. WANG, S., Li, L., WU, H., and Zhu, Z. H. (2005)“Unburned carbon as a low-cost adsorbent for treatment of methylene blue-containing wastewater”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol.292, pp336-343.

44. WANG, S., and Li, H. (2005)“Dye adsorption on unburned carbon: Kinetics and equilibrium”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.126, pp71-77.

45. Wee, .L., WU, H., MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K., and French, D. (2005)“The effect of combustion conditions on mineral matter transformation and ash deposition in a utility boiler fired withy a sub-bituminous coal”, Combustion Institute , Vol.30, pp2981-2989.

46. WU, H., Kong, C., MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K., Wall, T.F. (2005)“Ash formation from the combustion of coals with maceral concentrates at various pressures”, Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing, Vol.13 (3/4), pp415-422.

47. WU, H., and Kong, C. (2005)“Structural characterisation of porous char particles by surface observation using a fieldemission scanning electron microscope”, Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing, Vol.13(3/4), pp423-436.

48. Tian, F., WU, H., Yu, J., McKenzie, L.J, Konstantinidis, S., Hayashi, J.Chiba, T., and Li,C. (2005)“Formation of NOx precursors during the pyrolysis of coal and biomass. Part VIII. Effects of pressure on the formation of NH3 and HCN during the pyrolysis and gasification of Victorian brown coal in steam”, Fuel, Vol.84, pp2102-2108.

49. C Zeng, C., WU, H., Hayashi, J., and Li, C. (2005)“Effects of thermal pre-treatment in helium on the pyrolysis behaviour of Loy Yang brown coal”, Fuel, Vol.84, pp1586-1592.

50. WU, H., Li, X., Hayashi, J., Chiba, T. and Li, C.Z. (2005)“Effects of volatile-char interactions on the reactivity of chars from NaCl-loaded Loy Yang brown coal”, Fuel , Vol.84, pp1221-1228.

51. Wu, G., Qiu, G., Liu, X., Li, J., Chen, C., Gan, Y., Narendranathan, N. and WU, H. (2005)“Ultra filtration of secondary municipal wastewater: A Chinese pilot-scale demonstrationand implications”, Water, Vol.32 (5), pp57-63.

52. Ross, D.P., Yan, H.M., Zhong, Z. and MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“A non-isothermal model of a bubbling fluidised-bed coal gasifier”, Fuel, Vol.84, pp1469-1481.

53. ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Interactions between sodium, silica and sulphur in a low-rank coal during temperature-programmed pyrolysis”, Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, Vol.33(5), pp513-519.

54. Konnov, A.A., Barnes, F., Bromly, J., Zhu, J.N. and MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“The effect of NO and NO2 on the partial oxidation of methane: experiments and modelling”, Combustion Institute,, Vol.30, pp1093-1100.

55. Konnov, A.A., Barnes, F., Bromly, J., Zhu, J.N. and MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“The pseudo-catalytic promotion of nitric oxide oxidation by ethane at low temperatures”, Combustion Institute, Vol.141, pp191-199.

56. Shen, l., and MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Low-temperature pyrolysis of sewage sludge and putrescibles garbage for fuel oil production”, Fuel, Vol.84, pp809-815.

57. Stamatov, V.V., King, K.D. and MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Explosions of methane/air mixtures induced by radiation-heated large inert particles”Fuel, Vol.84, pp2086-2092.

58. MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Energy options in sustainable development”, Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, Vol.33(4), pp399-408.

59. Zhu, Z. H ., Hatori, H ., WANG, S. and Lu, G. Q. (2005)“Insights into hydrogen atom adsorption on and the electrochemical properties of nitrogen-substituted carbon materials”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.109, pp 16744 –16749.

60. Wu, J., Fang, F., Wang, Y. and MERGEFIELD "Authors" ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Combined coal gasification and methane reforming for production of syngas in a fluidized-bed reactor”, Energy and Fuels, Vol.19, pp512-516.

61. ZOUBIR, A. , Brcich, R. and Iskander, R.D. (2005)“The Stability Test for Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. IEEE, USA, Vol.53(3), pp977-986.

62. Pham, D.S. and ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“A Sequential Algorithm for Robust Parameter Estimation”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, USA, Vol.12(1), pp21-24.

6.2 Conference Papers

1. ABOABA, O. (2005)“Noise reduction by singularity detection and processing with wavelets”, The Proceedings of the 6th Postgraduate Electrical Engineering & Computing Symposium, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, pp7-11.

2. ABOABA, O, and CHUNG, K.-S. (2005)’Multipath channel parameter estimation in mobile radio environments using stationary wavelet transform”, Proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, IEEE, Perth, Australia, pp203.-207.

3. Abdullah Saleh, A., ANG, H-M., and TADE, M.O. (2005)“Doing More With Less Winery wastewater treatment using flat panel airlift photo-bioreactor with mixture of algae and bacteria”, Proceedings of CHEMECA’05 Smart Solutions, Brisbane, Queensland.

4. Tung Hoang, T., ANG, H-M., and Rohl, A.L. (2005)“Effects of temperature on the scaling of calcium sulphate in pipes”, Proceedings of CHEMECA’05 Smart Solutions , Brisbane, Queensland.

5. Safaeefar, P., ANG, H-M., TADE, M.O., and Reyhani, M. (2005)“Impurity effect of Mg (II) on the growth of manganese sulphate crystals in aqueous solution”, Proceedings of CHEMCON’05 , Delhi, India.

6. Asakuma, Y.K., ANG, H-M. and Maeda, K. (2005)“Analysis of absorbing mechanism of metal ion by using chelate reagent”, Proceedings of CHEMCON’05, Delhi, India.

7. BALLIU, N.E., and Cameron, I. (2005)“Challenges related to data collection and dynamic model validation of a fertilizer granulation plant”, .Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

8. BALLIU, N.E., and Cameron, I. (2005)“Calibration, validation and dynamic simulation of the fertiliser granulation process”Proceedings of CHEMECA ’05 Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

9. BOSWELL, B. and CHANDRATILLEKE, T.T. (2005)Use of air-cooling to reduce tool life cycle testing. Proceedings of the International Manufacturing Leaders Forum on Global Competitive Manufacturing (IMLF2005), Adelaide, Australia, Paper MISAU03 (CD-ROM).

10. CHAN, K.S., Shao, W. and Li, V.O.K (2005)“A distributed bandwidth reservation algorithm for QOS routing in TDMA-based mobile ad hoc networks, Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on high performance switching and routing, IEEE, Hong Kong, pp317-321.

11. CHAN, K.S. and Yeung, L.K. (2005)“Performance analysis of burst segmentation schemes supporting multiple traffic classes”, Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on high performance switching and routing, IEEE, Hong Kong, pp495-499.

12. CHANDRATILLEKE, T.T. and Gibbons, J. (2005)“Development Of Secondary Flow Instability And Its Influence On Convective Heat Transfer In Fluid Flow Through A Curved Heated Rectangular Duct”, Proceedings of the of 4th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT 2005), Cairo, Egypt.

13. Gibbons, J. and CHANDRATILLEKE, T.T. (2005)“Growth of Secondary Vortices and Associated Heat Transfer in Fluid Flow Through a Curved Heated Duct”, Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (8AHMTC), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.

14. CHANDRATILLEKE, T.T. and Gibbons, J. (2005)“Secondary Vortex Flow Behaviour And Convective Heat Transfer In Fluid Flow Through Curved Heated Ducts”, Proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Asia Rim Thermal Sciences and Energy Engineering Workshop (PaRTSEE-5, )University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

15. CHUNG, K.-S. and Van Der Werf, S.M. (2005)“Performance of MultiWARP routing protocol for multi-hop wireless ad-hoc network”, Proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, IEEE, Perth, Australia, pp779-783.

16. CUBERO, S.N. (2005) "Teaching Mechatronic Engineers How to Build Intelligent Machines", Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2005, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. (CD-ROM)

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35. Hossain, M. S., HU, Y., Randolph, M. F and White, D. J. (2005) “Spudcan Foundation Penetration into Non-homogeneous Clay”, Proceedings of the Inernational. Symosium. of Frontiers in Offshore Geomechanics, ISFOG, Perth, Australia, Vol.1, pp535-541.

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43. Song, Z. and HU, Y. (2005)“Vertical Pullout Behaviour of Plate Anchor in Uniform Clay”, International. Symposium. of Frontiers in Offshore Geomechanics, ISFOG, Perth, Australia, Vol.1, pp205-212.

44. Liu, J., HU, Y. and Wu, L. (2005) “Pullout Capacity of Circular Plate Anchor in Double Layered Clays”, Proceedings of the International. Symposium of Frontiers in Offshore Geomechanics, ISFOG, Perth, Australia, Vol.1, pp213-220.

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46. Song, Z., HU, Y. and Randolph, MF. (2005) “Pullout Behaviour of Inclined Plate Anchors in Uniform Clay”, IACMAG2005, Vol.3, pp 715-722.

47. Mehryar, Z., HU, Y., (2005), “Numerical Study of Spudcan Foundation Penetrating into Layered Soils”, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Vol.1, pp 901-907.

48. Liu, J. and HU, Y. (2005) “Continuous Penetration Of Spudcan Foundation Into Double Layered Soils”,Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, (IACMAG 2005), Vol.2, pp499-506.

49. Amanullah, M. ISLAM, S.M., Chami, S. and Lenco, G. (2005)

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50. Arshad,M. and ISLAM, S.M.(2005)“Fuzzy Logic Model for Power Transformer End of Life Estimation”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Information Technology, Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp557-552.

51. Teck, N.M.H., Yao, T.T. and ISLAM, S.M.(2005)“Effect of Loss Modeling on Optimum Operation of Wind Turbine Energy Conversion Systems”,Proceedings of the 7th International Power Engineering Conference. Nanyang Technological Uni and the IEEE Power Engineering Society, Singapore.

52. Arshad, M. and ISLAM, S.M. (2005)“Power Transformer Life Cycle Management Using Fuzzy Logic Technique”, Proceedings of the 8th IASTED International Conference Power And Energy Systems. International Association of Science and Technology for Development – IASTED, Marina del Rey, CA, U.S.A., pp 239-245.

53. ISLAM, S.M. and Arshad, M. (2005)“A Novel Fuzzy Logic Based Technique for Power Transformer Remnant Life Estimation”, Proceedings of the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC'05), The School of Engineering, The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania), pp184-189.

54. ISLAM, S.M. and Jauch, J. (2005)“Identification of a Reduced Order Wind Turbine Transfer Function from the Turbine's Step Response”, Proceedings of the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC'05). School of Engineering, The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, pp353-356.

55. ISLAM, S.M. and Liu, X. (2005)“Effect of Site and Size on the Reliability of a Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System”, Proceedings of the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC'05). The School of Engineering, The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, pp420-425.

56. ISLAM, S.M., Chami, S., Lenco, G. and Amanullah, M. (2005) “Analysis of Physical Characteristics of Vegetable Oils as an Alternative Source to Mineral Oil-based Dielectric Fluid”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids. Coimbra, Portugal, pp397-400.

57. KING, A.J.C. and CHANDRATILLEKE, T.T. (2005)"Heat Transfer Characteristics in Impinging Jet Arrays", Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Perth, Australia.

58. KING, A.J.C. and CHANDRATILLEKE, T.T. (2005)"Effects of Surface Modification on Heat and Fluid Flow Characteristics in Fluid Jets Impinging on a Heated Surface", Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Perth, Australia.

59. LAWRANCE, W.B., and MAYNARD, C.A. (2005)“Internationalising the Engineering Faculty at Curtin University: A scheme to promote overseas staff-student exchange”, Proceedings of the 4th ASEE/AaeE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education. Australian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney, Australia.

60. LAWRANCE, W.B. (2005)Understanding Maximum Power Point Tracking: A practical approach for students, Proceedings of the ANZSES Solar 2005 Conference, Otago

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61. LAWRANCE, W.B., MAYNARD, C.A. and Owen, P. (2005)“A design package for solar water pumping systems”, Proceedings of the 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, WIP Renewable Energies, Barcelona, pp2182-2185.

62. Elsallam, A.A., LEUNG, Y-H. and ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“On The Selection of Significant Multipath Components For Parsimonious DS-CDMA RAKE Receiver: A Covariance Bootstrap Based Approach”, Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'05), IEEE, Perth, WA, pp198-202.

63. Al-ayyan, F.O..H., LEUNG,Y-H. and ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“Linear one tap equalizer for the spatial diversity based on GI-less OFDM system”, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC’05), IEEE, USA, pp141-145.

64. Elsallam, A.A.A., LEUNG, Y-H, and ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“A Frequency Domain Sphericity Test Based Approach for Parsimonious RAKE Receiver in CDMA Systems”, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications (ISSPA'05), IEEE, USA.

65. LEUNG, Y-H.(2005)“An Alternative Derivation of The Durbin Method for MA Spectrum Estimation”, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications (ISSPA'05), IEEE, USA.

66. Al-ayyan, F.O.H., LEUNG, Y-H and ZOUBIR, A. (2005) “A Fast Blind Channel Estimation Method for ZP-OFDM Systems”, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'05), IEEE, U.S.A.

67. LEUNG, Y-H., Lau, B.K. and Viberg, M. (2005)“Data-Adaptive Array Interpolation for DOA Estimation in Correlated Signal Environments”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2005, IEEE, Philadelphia, U.S.A., pp945-948.

68. LI, Q., Harris, B.D., Aydogan, C., ANG, H-M., and TADE, M.O. (2005)“Feasibility of recharging reclaimed wastewater to the coastal aquifers of Perth, Western Australia”, Proceedings of WasteEng’05, Albi, France.

69. Scarfe P.C. and LINDSAY E. D., (2005)"Neural Network Training of Artificial Humanoid Hands for Deaf-Blind Sign Language", Mechatronics & Machine Vision in Practice, Manila, The Philippines.

70. R. Albon and LINDSAY E. D., (2005)"Getting Past Anti-Groupwork Excuses to the Real Issues They Hide", Proceedings of the Evaluations and Assessment Conference 2005, Sydney, Australia.

71. LINDSAY E. D. and Pritchard, G. (2005) "Animatronic Puppetry: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Collaboration", Proceedings of the 4th ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, Sydney, Australia.

72. LOU, X. and Loh, J. (2005)“Gelatine Nano-Spheres for Controlled Drug Delivery in the Eye”, Nanotechnology, the building block for tomorrow’s advanced technology, Perth, Australia.

73. Knight, J.J., LUCEY, A.D. and Shaw, C.T. (2005) Fluid-structure interaction of convertible car roofs. Proceedings of the SIA Vehicle Aerodynamics Conference, Lyon, France.

74. MASOUM, M.A.E., Ladjavardi, M. and Fuchs, E.F. (2005)“Effects on Distribution Feeders from Electronic Loads Based on Future Peak-Load Growth, Part I: Measurements”, Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference. The International Association of Science and Technology for Development – IASTED. Anaheim, USA, pp449-454.

75. MASOUM, M.A.E., Ladjavardi, M. and Fuchs, E.F. (2005)“Effects on Distribution Feeders from Electronic Loads Based on Future Peak-Load Growth, Part II: Evaluation”, Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference. The International Association of Science and Technology for Development – IASTED, Anaheim, USA, pp455-460.

76. MEI , J. (2005)“Adaptive power control and scheduling for data services in a WCDMA system”, Proceedings of the 6th Postgraduate Electrical Engineering & Computing Symposium, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, pp127-131.

77. Van Der Werf, S.M. and MEI, J. (2005) “A corrupt packet detection mechanism for WCDMA receivers”, Proceedings of the 6th Postgraduate Electrical Engineering & Computing Symposium, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, pp124-126.

78. MEI, J. And CHUNG, K.-S. ( (2005)“Adaptive scheduling for time varying channels in a WCDMA system”, Proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, IEEE, Perth, Australia, pp469-453.

79. Armstrong, H. and MURRAY, I.(2005) "Incorporating Vendor-Based Training into Security Courses", Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Information Assurance Worshop, IEEE Man Systems and Cybernetics Society, US Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA, pp172-175.

80. Armstrong, H. and MURRAY, I. (2005)"Building A Bridge for the Sight Impaired:  Converting Cisco E-Learning Curriculum", Proceedings of the IFIP TC11 WG 11.8, 4th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE4), Moscow, Russia, pp155-161.

81. MURRAY, I. (2005)"Universal Access – Assistive Technology on Tiger", Proceedings of the AUC Academic Conference 2005, Hobart, Tasmania Australia.

82. MURRAY, I.and Armstrong, H. (2005)"Supporting Sight Impaired IT Students in an e-learning Environment" Proceedings of Educase Australasia, Auckland, New Zealand.

83. Chellen, B. and MURRAY, I. (2005)"Using Empirical Information to Optimise WLAN Performance", Proceedings of ICTWA 2005, Perth, Australia.

84. Fung, C.C., Li, J-B. and MYERS , D.G. (2005)“Evaluation of an efficient parallel object oriented platform ( EPOOP ) for control intensive intelligent  applications.”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2005

85. Fung, C.C., Li, J-B. and MYERS , D.G. (2005)“Evaluation of a small scale cluster computing system for parallel  intelligent  technique applications.”, Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Cybernetics and Machine Intelligence, Guangzhou, PRC, P R China.

86. Ahmed, W., and MYERS, D.G. (2005)“Design metrics for improving hardware/software co-design in embedded systems”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Industrial Infomatics.

87. NARAYANASWAMY, R., KING, A.J.C. and CHANDRATILLEKE, T.T. (2005) “Multimode heat transfer in an enclosure with multiple partitions”. Presented at the 8th Australasian Heat & Mass Transfer Conference, Perth, Australia.

88. Ahmad, S.A., Dehbonei, H. and NAYAR, C.V. (2005)“Application of Voltage Controlled Voltage Source Inverter in PV-Diesel Minigrid Hybrid Energy System”, Proceedings of the 6th Postgraduate Electrical Engineering & Computing Symposium, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, pp137-141.

89. NAYAR, C.V., DEHBONEI, H and Chang, L. (2005) “A Low Cost Power Electronic Interface for Small Scale Wind Generators in Single Phase Distributed Power Generation System”, Proceedings of AUPEC 2005 Australian Universities Power Engineering Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, pp205-211.

90. Oranperoj, K., Premrudeepreechacharn, S., Kumsuwan, Y., Boonsai, T. and NAYAR, C.V. (2005)“Phase 4-Wire Voltage Sag Compensator Based on Three Dimensions Space Vector”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drives (PEDS’05), Universiti Technologi, KualaLumpur, Malaysia, pp1301-1305.

91. Lo, W.K., NIKRAZ, H.R., Tamilsevan, T. and Zhao, M.M. (2005)“An Elastoplastic Shear-Fracture Model For Soil and Soft Rock”, Proceedings of the International Congress on Fracture, Turin.

92. NIKRAZ, H.R., Ali, M. and Golshani, D. (2005)“Observation Survey of Seat Belt usage among young children in Dubai, UAE”Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Traffic Accidents (TAC’05), Tehran.

93. Offer, B., Kong, P. and NIKRAZ, H.R. (2005)"Development in Mechanics of Structures and Materials", Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Perth, Australia, pp1049-1050.

94. ORTEGA-SANCHEZ , C. A. (2005)“Bio-Inspired Hardware Using FPGAs”, Proceedings of VLSI-SoC 2005, International Federation for Information Processing, Perth, WA, pp73-178.

95. PALIPANA, R. (2005) “Performance of cyclic prefix based frequency offset estimator in the presence of IQ imbalance”, Proceedings of the 6th Postgraduate Electrical Engineering & Computing Symposium, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, pp33-136.

96. PALIPANA, R, and CHUNG, K.-S. 2005) “A DVB-T receiver architecture suitable for RF-SOC”, Proceedings of the IFIP WG10.5 Conference on very large scale integration system-on-chip, International Federation for Information Processing, Perth, Australia, pp339-343.

97. PALIPANA, R, and CHUNG, K.-S. (2005)“Blind IE error compensation in a direct conversion receiver for DVB-T”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2005, IEEE, Kobe, Japan, Vol4, pp3611-3614.

98. PALIPANA, R, and CHUNG, K.-S. (2005) “Frequency offset estimation in the presence of IQ imbalance for a DVB-T receiver”, Proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, IEEE, Perth, Australia, pp715-719.

99. PALIPANA, R, and CHUNG, K.-S. (2005)Frequency domain IQ correction in a direct conversion receiver for DVB-T. Proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, IEEE, Perth, Australia, pp 590-594, pp590-594.

100. Pareek, M., Ashford, A.E., Allaway, W.G and PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“Mass transport in small-scale biologival entities: An application in plant science”Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

101. PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“Light intensity distribution in multiple lamp photo reactors”, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland,

102. N Novia, N., PAREEK, V.K., and RAY, M.S. (2005)“CFD Simulation of multiphase flow in FCC riser reactors”, Proceedings of CHEMICA’05 Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

103. Singh, K., PAREEK, V.K., and TADE, M.O. (2005)“Control of Multiphase Reactors”, Proceedings of CHEMCON’05, India.

104. PAREEK, V.K., and Adesina, A.A. (2005)“Light intensity distribution in photo reactors”, Proceedings of CHEMCON’05, Delhi, India.

105. Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., Marthin Sumajouw, and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)“Introducing fly ash-based geopolymer concrete: manufacturing and engineering properties”, Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Our World in Concrete & Structures, Singapore, pp271-278.

106. Wallah, S., Hardjito, D., Marthin Sumajouw, and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)"Serviceability of Concrete Asymposium honoring Dr Edwards G. Nawy"Proceedings of Serviceability of Concrete Asymposium honoring Dr Edwards G. Nawy, New York, U.S.A., pp27-35.

107. Marthin Sumajouw, Hardjito, D., Wallah, S. and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)"Geopolymer, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development Solutions"Proceedings of World Congress Geopolymer 2005, Saint Quentin, France, pp149-151.

108. Wallah, S., Hardjito, D., Marthin Sumajouw, and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)“Sulphate and acid resistance of fly ash-based geopolymer concrete”Proceedings of Australian Structural Engineering Conference ASCE’05), Newcastle, Australia.

109. Sumajouw, M., Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., and Rangan, V. B. (2005)“Flexural Behaviour of Reinforced Fly Ash-Basd Geopolymer Concrete Beams”Proceedings of the 22nd Bienniel Concference of Concrete Institute of Australia,

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110. RANGAN, V. B. , Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., and Sumajouw, M. (2005)“Tests on fly ash-based geopolymer concrete”Proceedings of the International Workshop on Geopolymers and Geopolymer Concrete (GGC’05), Perth, Australia.

111. Sumajouw, M., Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)"Developments in Mechanics of Structures and Materials", Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Perth, Australia, pp175-180.

112. Wallah, S., Hardjito, D., Sumajouw, M. and Rangan, V. B. (2005)“Creep and drying shrinkage behaviour of fly ash-based geopolymer concrete”Proceedings of the 22nd Bienniel Conf of Concrete Institute of Australia, , Australia.

113. Sumajouw, M., Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., and RANGAN, V. B. (2005) “Sulphate and acid resistance of fly ash-based geopolymer concrete”Proceedings of the Australian Structural Engineering Conference (ASCE’05), Newcastle, Australia.

114. Sumajouw, M., Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)“Behaviour of geopolymer concrete columns under equal load eccentricites.”Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on High-Strength / High-Performance Concrete, Washington, DC, U.S.A., pp 577-594.

115. Wallah, S., Hardjito, D., Sumajouw, M. and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)“Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete: An Application for Structural Members”Proceedings of World Congress Geopolymer 2005, Saint Quentin, France, pp149-151.

116. Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., Sumajouw, M. and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)“Effect of mixing time and test period on the engineering properties of fly ash-based geopolymer concrete ", Proceedings of the World Congress Geopolymer 2005, Saint Quentin, France, pp145-147.

117. RANGAN, V. B., Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., and Sumajouw, M. (2005)“Studies on Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete”, Proceedings of the World Congress Geopolymer 2005, Saint Quentin, France.

118. Dabbagh, H., Foster, S. and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)“Behaviour and strength of geopolymer concrete columns”, Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, The Netherlands, pp 175-180.

119. Hardjito, D., Wallah, S., Sumajouw, M., and RANGAN, V. B. (2005)“The stress-strain behaviour of fly ash-based geopolymer concrete”, Proceedings of Developments in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Perth, Australia, pp 831-834.

120. Akhtar, M. A., Lievense, R, TADE, M.O., and PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“CFD simulations of bubble column reactors: Effects of air distributor”, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

121. Bisowarno, B.H. and TADE, M.O. (2005)“Optimisation of an ETBE reactive distillation column using a supervisory control system”, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering , Glasgow, Scotland.

122. Akhtar, M. A ., TADE, M.O., and PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“Bubble column CFD simulations: Effect of distributor perforation”, Proceedings of CHEMECA ’05 Smart solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

123. Yan, H.M. and TADE, M.O. (2005)“Teaching strategies for undergraduates to produce peer-reviewed papers from their

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124. Akhtar, M. A., TADE, M.O., and PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“Application of VOF simulations on a bubble column reactor with internals ”Proceedings of Sustainable Technologies for Efficient Energy Utilization in Process Industries, India.

125. Teck, N.M.H., TAN, K.H. and ISLAM, S.M.(2005)“Mitigation of Harmonics in Wind Turbine Driven Variable Speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generators”, , Proceedings of the 7th International Power Engineering Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the IEEE Power Engineering Society, Singapore.

126. VUTHALURU, H. B. and VUTHALURU, R. (2005)“CFD modelling of a complex coal pulveriser”, Proceedings of the 8th Annual CFD Symposium, Bangalore, India.

127. VUTHALURU, H. B. and VUTHALURU, R. (2005)“Numerical modelling of an opposite wall fired furnace - Effect of operating conditions ”Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Perth, Australia.

128. VUTHALURU, H.B., TADE, M.O., and Yao, H. M. (2005)“Prediction of coal H2 content for combustion control in PC-fired boilers using artificial neural network”, Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Perth, Australia.

129. VUTHALURU, H. B., VUTHALURU, R., and Doyle, M. (2005)“Numerical modelling of a low-NOx coal burner using FLUENT ”, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

130. VUTHALURU, R and VUTHALURU, H.B. (2005)“Modelling of a wall fired furnace for different operating conditions”, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

131. Coleman, H., Doshi, V.A.K., VUTHALURU, H. B., Korbee, Lensselink, R.J. and Kiel, J. H. (2005)“Investigations into the effects of biomass co-firing on fly ash resistively ”Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

132. Ryan, D., Doshi, V.A.K., VUTHALURU, H. B., Korbee, R. and Kiel, J. H. (2005)“Modelling of electrostatic precipitator performance during co-firing of coal and biomass ”Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

133. VUTHALURU, H.B. and VUTHALURU, R. (2005)“CFD modelling of a coal burner using FLUENT”, Proceedings of CHEMCA’05 - Smart Solutions - Doping More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

134. VUTHALURU, H.B. and VUTHALURU, R. (2005)“Modelling of an opposite wall fired furnace for different operating conditions ”Proceedings of CHEMCA’05 - Smart Solutions - Doping More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

135. VUTHALURU, H.B., TADE, M.O., and Yao, H. M. (2005)“Using the ANN prediction of coal H2 content for combustion control in pulverised coal-fired boilers ”, Proceedings of CHEMECA ‘05 Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

136. Doshi, V.A.K., VUTHALURU, H.B., Korbee, R. and Kiel, J H (2005)“Prediction of ash formation behaviour of biomass during combustion through characterisation of the inorganic matter ” Proceedings of CHEMECA ‘05 - Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

137. Doshi, V.A.K., VUTHALURU, H. B., Korbee, R. Lensselink, J. and Kiel, J. H. (2005)“Investigations into the performance of electrostatic precipitators for co-fired pf boilers ”Proceedings of CHEMECA (2005) - Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

138. Nasir, S. and VUTHALURU, H.B. (2005)“Effect of calcium carbonate on spiral-wound membrane performance ”, Proceedings of CHEMECA (2005) - Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

139. VUTHALURU, H.B., PAREEK, V.K. and VUTHALURU, R. (2005)“Multiphase flow simulation of a simplified coal pulveriser”, Proceedings of ICEFM05, India.

140. VUTHALURU, H. B., VUTHALURU, R., and PAREEK, V.K. (2005)“Multiphase flow simulation of a simplified coal pulveriser”, Proceedings of ICEFM05, India.

141. VUTHALURU, H. B., VUTHALURU, R., Srikanth, C., Venkat rao, G. and Bhaskar, C. (2005)“Air-flow simulation in 3D elbow duct burner”, Proceedings of ICEFM05, India.

142. VUTHALURU, H.B., and Nasir, S. (2005)“Feasibility studies of desalination technologies and possible options for Australia”Proceedings of the International Association Desalination World Congress, Singapore.

143. WANG, S. (2005)“Silica supported sulphated zirconium catalysts for hydrocarbon conversion”Proceedings of 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.

144. WU, H., Fu, Q., Giles, R., and Bartle, J. (2005)“Energy balance of Mallee biomass production in Western Australia”, Proceedings of Bioenergy Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

145. WU, H., Elliot, A., Rossiter, A., ZHANG, D.K. and Zhu, J.N. (2005)“An economic analysis of manufacturing aggregates from coal ash: An Australian scenario”, Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Coal Science and Technology , Okinawa, Japan.

146. WU, H., Ng, E., ZHANG, D.K. and WANG, S. (2005)“Properties of large unburnt char particles in fly ash from pulverised-fuel power stations and implications in beneficial separation and utilisation”, Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Coal Science and Technology , Okinawa, Japan.

147. Wee, H.L., WU, H., Zhu, J.N. and ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Heterogeneity of ash deposits formed during pulverised fuel combustion”Proceedings of CHEMECA’05 Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

148. Yip, K.V., WU, H., ZHANG, D.K. and Coleman, J. (2005)“Feasibility of producing char for metallurgical applications from Collie coal briquettes by pyrolysis”, Proceedings of CHEMECA’05Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

149. WU, H., Esther Ng, ZHANG, D.K. and WANG, S. (2005)“Properties of large unburnt char particles in fly ash from pulverised-fuel power stations and implications in beneficial separation and utilisation”, Proceedings of International Conference of Coal Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan.

150. Pau, K.Y. and YAN, H.M. (2005)“Modelling MTBE production in reactive distillation column using HYSYS and ASPEN”Proceedings of CHEMECA’05Smart Solutions - Doing More With Less, Brisbane, Queensland.

151. Sun, Z., Wu, J. and ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Methane and Carbon dioxide reactions over a Chinese coal char in a fixed-bed reactor”, Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Adelaide, South Australia, pp437-440.

152. Han, X., Freij, S.J.H., Feng, B ., Gunawan, R., ZHANG, D.K. and Waters, P. (2005)“A chemical characterisation of pyritic black shales in an iron ore mine”Proceedings of the Iron Ore Conference , Fremantle, Perth, pp221-226.

153. Gunawan, R ., Han, X ., Rossiter, A ., Freij, S.J.H., Feng, B ., ZHANG, D.K., Waters, P., Beach, F., Littlefair, M. (2005)“Reactivity of pyritic shales from Mt Whaleback Mine towards ammonium nitrate based explosives”, Proceedings of the Iron Ore Conference , Fremantle, Perth, pp235-239.

154. Elliot, A. and ZHANG, D.K. (2005)“Controlled release zeolite fertilisers: A value added product produced from fly ash”Proceedings of World of Coal Ash (WOCA’05), Lexington, Kentucky.

155. ZHOU, Z., LI, Q., and Zhao,X.X. (2005)“The evolution of interparticle capillary forces during drying of colloidal crystals”Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT’05) Singapore.

156. ZOUBIR, A. , Cirillo, L.A. and Amin, M.G. (2005)“Direction finding of non-stationary signals using a time-frequency Hough transform”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. IEEE, USA.

157. ZOUBIR, A. , Aouada, S., Traskov, D . and Nico, D.H. (2005)“Application of the Bootstrap to Source Detection in Nonuniform Noise”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2005, IEEE, U.S.A.

158. ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“On Confidence Intervals for the Coherence Function”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2005. IEEE, U.S.A.

159. ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“Bootstrap based spectral analysis”, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'05), IEEE, USA.

160. Mashury, M. and ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“A Subspace-Based Blind Channel Estimation For Zero-padded MC-CDMA”, Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'05), IEEE, Perth, Australia.

161. Al-ayyan, F.O.H., ZOUBIR, A. and Abed-meraim, K. (2005)“Blind equalization and frequency offset estimation in OFDM systems exploiting guard interval redundancy”, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications (ISSPA'05), IEEE, U.S.A.

162. Elsallam, A.A.A. and ZOUBIR, A. (2005)“Fast Adaptive Channel Estimation Algorithms for CDMA Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2005, IEEE, U.S.A.

6.3 Books

1. EREN, H. (2005)Engineering Handbook, Sensors, CRC Press, Boca Raton USA.

2. EREN, H. and Roocke, P. (2005)Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering, Altimeters, Wiley, USA.

3. EREN, H. (2005)Wireless Sensors and Instruments – Networks, Design and Applications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA.

4. NAYAR C.V., ISLAM S., Sharma H., DEHBONEI H. and TAN K. (2005)Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Power Electronics Handbook (Ed. Professor MH Rashid), Academic Press.

6.4 Book Chapters

1. EREN, H. (2005)Sensors, Engineering Handbook, Ch. 158, pp1-31, CRC Press, Boca Raton USA.

2. EREN, H. and Roocke, P. (2005)Altimeters, Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering, Wiley, USA.

3. EREN, H. (2005)“Specialty Displacement and Angle Sensors”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 193, pp1281-86, Wiley and Sons, London.

4. EREN, H. (2005)“Types of Paper Standards and Their Purpose”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 44, pp 261-68, Wiley and Sons, London.

5. EREN, H. (2005)“Calibration Process”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 45, pp271-77, Wiley and Sons, London

6. EREN, H. (2005)“Fieldbus Systems”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 172, pp1147-1153, Wiley and Sons, London.

7. EREN, H. (2005)“Displacement and Angle Sensor Performance and Selection”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 191, pp1263-67, Wiley and Sons, London

8. EREN, H. (2005)Voltage Measurement, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 201, pp1353-61, Wiley and Sons, London.

9. EREN, H. (2005)“Current Measurements”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 203, pp1371-78, Wiley and Sons, London.

10. EREN, H. (2005)“Resistance Measurement”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 203, pp1371-78, Wiley and Sons, London.

11. EREN, H., Wong, B. (2005)“Electronics, Power Electronics, OptoElectronics, Microwaves, Electromagnetics and Radar Spectrum, Specifications, and Measurement Techniques”, The Electrical Engineering Handbook, Ch. 19.2, pp19.1-19.27, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton.

12. EREN, H. (2005)“Nanoscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Instruments Portable Instruments and Systems”, The Electrical Engineering Handbook Sensors, Ch. 5.2, pp5.27-5.35, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton.

13. EREN, H. (2005)“Mathematical Methods of Optimization”, Handbook of Measuring System Design, Ch. 72, pp452-455, Wiley and Sons, London.

7. Research Income

7.1 Australian Research-Council Grants (ARC) – Curtin University1. Researchers: DR ZHONGHUA ZHU

Period: 1st January 2003 to 31 December 2005Title: Theoretical and experimental studies of catalyst doping and defects in

carbon nanotubes for hydrogen storage.Total Funding: $215,0002005 Funding: $72,000Organisation: Australian Research Council - Discovery

2. Researchers: DR HONGWEI WU, PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG, Mr M Martella

Period: 1st April 2005 to 31st December 2007Title: Heat Transfer Mechanisms in an Indirectly Fired Rotary Kiln with Lifters

and Its Role in Scaling.Total Funding: $140,1482005 Funding: $55,047Organisation: Australian Research Council - Linkage

3. Researchers: DR QIN LI , Dr X S ZhaoPeriod: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2007Title: Multi-scale Modelling and Simulation of Self-assembling Photonic

Crystals.Total Funding: $183,0002005 Funding: $65,000Organisation: Australian Research Council - Discovery

4. Researchers: PROFESSOR MOSES TADE, Dr Y TianPeriod: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2007Title: Wavelet-Based Modelling And Model Predictive Control Of Complex

Multidimensional Crystallisation Processes.Total Funding: $223,0002005 Funding: $75,000Organisation: Australian Research Council - Discovery

5. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG, Dr J H Bromly; Professor A A Konnov

Period: 1st January 2005 to 1st January 2007Title: Investigations into the Mechanisms of Reactions between Alkanes and

Nitric Oxide at Low Temperatures.Total Funding: $178,0002005 Funding: $60,000Organisation: Australian Research Council - Discovery

6. Researchers: DR HONGWEI WU Period: 1st January 2005 – 31st December 2007Title: Production of hydrogen from biomass by integrated catalytic aqueous

hydrolysis and reforming in sub critical water.Total Funding: $210,0002005 Funding: $88,886Organisation: Australian Research Council - Discovery

7. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG Period: 1st January 2003 to September 2007Title: Mechanisms of Ammonium Nitrate Decomposition and Stability of

Industrial Explosives in Reactive Mining Grounds.Total Funding: $480,0002005 Funding: $120,046Organisation: Australian Research Council - Linkage

8. Researchers: DR VISHNU PAREEK, PROFESSOR MOSES TADEPeriod: 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2006Title: Dynamic CFD Simulations and Scale-Up of Three-Phase Slurry

Reactors for Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) Technology.Total Funding: $185,6142005 Funding: $49,732 Organisation: Australian Research Council - Discovery

9. Researchers: PROFESSOR ANTHONY LUCEY, Dr P R Eastwood; Dr D R Hillman; Professor D D Sampson; Dr T Balint

Period: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2007Title: Modelling and Measurement of Flow-Structure Dynamics in the Human

Upper Airway.Total Funding: $425,0002005 Funding: $150,000Organisation: Australian Research Council – Discovery

10. Researchers: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TILAK CHANDRATILLEKEPeriod: 1st January 2004 to 31st July 2007Title: Thermal enhancement strategies and development of a high-

performance micro-scale heat exchanger for thermoelectric refrigeration with large cooling load.

Total Funding: $99,7262005 Funding: $29,707Organisation: Australian Research Council – Linkage

11. Researchers: PROFESSOR CHEMMANGOT NAYAR Period: 1st January 2003 to 31st December 2005Title: A hybrid integrated system for municipal solid waste treatment and

power generation.Total Funding: $125,0002005 Funding: $30,000Organisation: Australian Research Council – Linkage

12. Researchers: PROFESSOR CHEMMANGOT NAYARPeriod: 1st January 2003 to 31st December 2006Title: Control and interfacing of grid-connected IGBT Inverters for small-scale

wind generators.Total Funding: $230,0002005 Funding: $78,062Organisation: Australian Research Council – Linkage

13. Researchers: DR SYED ISLAM, MR IAIN MURRAY, Mr DJ Gribble Period: 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2006Title: An Economical, Robust Alternative Braille Transcription Device. The

Curtin University Brailler (CUB).Total Funding: $174,6372005 Funding: $52,845Organisation: Australian Research Council – Linkage

14. Researchers: DR KING-SUN CHAN Period: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2005Title: Quality of Service (QoS) Guaranteed Multicast Routing in Mobile Ad

Hoc Networks (MANET).Total Funding: $10,0002005 Funding: $10,000Organisation: Curtin University of Technology

15. Researchers: PROFESSOR CHEMMANGOT NAYAR, Dr H DehboneiPeriod: 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2007Title: Multi-function power electronic interface for hybrid mini-grid systems. Total Funding: $242,6002005 Funding: $86,734Organisation: Australian Research Council – Linkage

16. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAM, D M Amanullah and Mr G IencoPeriod: 1st January 2003 to December 2005 (extended to 2006)Title: Vegetable Oils as Dielectric Liquid for Oil Filled Distribution and Power

TransformersTotal Funding: $163,0002005 Funding: $50,000Organisation: Australian Research Council – Linkage

7.2 Australian Research- Council Grants (ARC) – Externally Administered1. Researchers: Song Wang, DR XIA LOU         Period: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2007        Title: Optimal design of controlled drug delivery systems.        Total Funding: $231,000       2005 Funding:  $91,000        Organisation:  University of Western Australia

2. Researchers:  PROFESSOR KAH-SENG CHUNG, Mr Nick JerratPeriod:  1st January 2004 to 31st December 2006Title:  Remote monitoring on dairy farms.Total Funding: $313,6402005 Funding: $81,320Organisation:  Dairy Australia

7.3 Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Grants1. Researchers: DR HONGWEI WU

Period: 1st January 2002 to 31st December 2007Title: CCSD Lecturer Total Funding: $283 4652005 Funding: $56,693Organisation: CCSD

2. Researchers: DR VISHNU PAREEKPeriod: 1st October 2003 to 31st December 2006Title: Process Modelling and Flowsheeet DevelopmentTotal Funding: $185,0002005 Funding: $132,000Organisation: A J Parker

3. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG, DR HONGWEI WUPeriod: 1st January 2002 to 31st December 2008Title: Improvements in pf operations Total Funding: $1,210,0002005 Funding: $130,895Organisation: CCSD

4. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG, DR HONGWEI WUPeriod: 1st January 2002 to 31st December 2008Title: Utilisation of solid waste and by-productsTotal Funding: $1,058,0002005 Funding: $111,670Organisation: CCSD

5. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANGPeriod: 1st July 2004 to 30th June 2006Title: Funding agreement Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in

sustainable DevelopmentTotal Funding: $297,5002005 Funding: $135,000Organisation: Office of Science and Technology

6. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANGPeriod: July 2003 to June 2005Title: Development of de-sanding process for Western PowerTotal Funding: $108,8002005 Funding: $54,616Organisation: CCSD

7. Researchers: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IAN HOWARDPeriod: 1st December 2004 to 31st December 2005Title: Condition Monitoring of Low Speed MachineryTotal Funding: $95,0002005 Funding: $35,000Organisation: CRC

8. Researchers: PROFESSOR S ISLAM, DR K TAN AND DR H ERENPeriod: December 2005- December 2007Title: Transformer Remnant Life EstimationTotal Funding: $300,0002005 Funding: $15,000Organisation: CRC-CIEAM

7.4 Industry Grants1. Researchers: DR VISHNU KUMAR PAREEK, PROFESSOR MOSES O TADÉ

Period: 1st November 2003 to 31st October 2006Title: Application of CFD to predict production performance of thin oil RIM

reservoirs.Total Funding: $104,0002005 Funding: $34,666Organisation: Woodside Energy Ltd

2. Researchers: DR HONGWEI WU Period: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2005Title: A life cycle analysis of bioenergy from mallee.Total Funding: $45,8732005 Funding: $7,500Organisation: Curtin University of Technology, WA Sustainable Energy Development

Office, Department of Conservation and Land Management, WA State Government

3. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG Period: 17th October 2005 to 23rd October 2005Title: In situ neutron diffraction and in situ high temperature X-ray diffraction

studies of ammonium nitrate-pyretic shale reactions.Total Funding: $8,6222005 Funding: $8,622Organisation: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering

4. Researchers: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TILAK CHANDRATILLEKE Period: 1st January 2005 – 31st December 2006Title: Strategies to prevent excessive water temperatures. Total Funding: $73,5002005 Funding: $36,750Organisation: WA Water Corporation of Western Australia

5. Researchers: PROFESSOR KAH-SENG CHUNG Period: 1st April 2004 to 30 October 2005Title: Remote Monitoring on Dairy Farms.Total Funding: $390,1402005 Funding: $260,093Organisation: Dairy Australia , Curtin University of Technology

6. Researchers: PROFESSOR ABDELHAK ZOUBIR Period: 1st July 2002 to 1st July 2005Title: Automatic classification and detection using time-frequency analysis.Total Funding: $22,5002005 Funding: $7,500Organisation: Department of Defence Science & Technology

7. Researchers: PROFESSOR DAVID SCOTTPeriod: February 2003 continuingTitle: Construction and evaluation of Fluidised Limestone Bed Treatment

SystemTotal Funding: $653602005 Funding: $45,360Organisation: Centre for Sustainable Mines Lakes / Shire of Collie

8. Researchers: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HAMID NIKRAZPeriod: 1st August 2003 to 31st December 2006Title: Sustainable use of residual bauxite tailing sand in material technologyTotal Funding: $270,0002005 Funding: $80,000Organisation: Alcoa

9. Researchers: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HAMID NIKRAZPeriod: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2008Title: Use of beneficiated residual sandTotal Funding: $100,0002005 Funding: $40,000Organisation: CSRP

10. Researchers: DR QIN LI, DR NICOLETA BALLIUPeriod: 1st June 2005 to 30th June 2008Title: Evaluation of alternative processing technologies applicable to crustaceansTotal Funding: $971,2492005 Funding: $6,137Organisation: Fisheries Research Development Corporation

11. Researchers: DR HONGWEI WU, PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANGPeriod: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2005Title: Energy viability of biomass to bi-fuel broad-care farming regionsTotal Funding: $10,0002005 Funding: $10,000Organisation: Rural Industries R&D Corporation

12. Researchers: PROFESSOR MOSES TADE, DR VISHNU PAREEK Period: 1st October 2003 to December 2006Title: CFD – Thin oil production reservoirTotal Funding: $189,0002005 Funding: $39,100Organisation: Woodside Energy

13. Researchers: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HA-MING ANG, PROFESSOR MOSES TADE, DR QIN LI

Period: 1st November 2005 – 28th February 2006Title: Finding the correlation between MFI (membrane filtration index) and

turbidity measurementsTotal Funding: $5,0002005 Funding: $5,000Organisation: Water Corporation

14. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG Period: 1st May 2002 – 31st December 2010Title: Research of spontaneous combustion of Mt McRae black shale and

spontaneous explosion of charged ANFO at Mt Whaleback: The effects of shale composition, weathering, moisture and ANFO

Total Funding: $1,621,8052005 Funding: $153,760Organisation: BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd

15. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG AND DR JOHN BROMLY Period: 1st June 2004 to 31st December 2005Title: Improvements in Koongana lime vertical shaft kiln operations Total Funding: $150,0002005 Funding: $72,700Organisation: WA Department of Environment

16. Researchers: DR HONGWEI WUPeriod: 1st September 2005 – 31st December 2005Title: Computer simulation of granular flow in a rotary kiln with lifters using a

discrete element model simulationTotal Funding: $7,5002005 Funding: $7,500Organisation: iVEC

17. Researchers: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IAN HOWARDPeriod: 1st March 2004 to 1st February 2005Title: Down Hole RF TransmissionTotal Funding: $30,0002005 Funding: $10,000Organisation: Peak Well Services PTY LTD

18. Researchers: DR IAN DAVIESPeriod: 17th August 2005 – 19th August 2005Title: Mapping of Nanostructures in Biological Composite Materials”,

Australian Research Synchrotron Programme (ASRP)Total Funding: $12,0002005 Funding: $12,000Organisation: Australian Research Synchrotron Programme (ASRP)

19. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAMPeriod: 9th March 2005 to 31st November 2005Title: Transient Model for Equipment Lightning ProtectionTotal Funding: $29,2382005 Funding: $29,238Organisation: Western Power

20. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAMPeriod: 20th April 2005 to 31st November 2005Title: Safe Step and Touch Potential in Street Structures under Faulted

ConditionsTotal Funding: $19,8002005 Funding: $19,800Organisation: Western Power

21. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAMPeriod: 10th August 2004 to 31st July 2005Title: Fabricated Power PolesTotal Funding: $19,8002005 Funding: $13,200Organisation: Western Power

22. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAMPeriod: 13th May 2004 to 31st June 2005Title: Possible New Condition Monitoring Techniques for Power PolesTotal Funding: $19,8002005 Funding: $13,200Organisation: Western Power

23. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAMPeriod: 13th May 2004 to 31st June 2005Title: Probabilistic Assessmnt of Lightning Strikes in Western Power SystemTotal Funding: $19,8002005 Funding: $13,200Organisation: Western Power

24. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAMPeriod: 2nd November 2005 to 31st October 2006Title: Cause of damage to Electronic Equipment due to inadequate Earthing

FacilityTotal Funding: $19,8002005 Funding: $6,600Organisation: Western Power

25. Researchers: PROFESSOR SYED ISLAMPeriod: 8th September 2005 to 31st October 2006Title: Procedures to Improve SF6 Switchgear maintenanceTotal Funding: $19,8002005 Funding: $6,600Organisation: Western Power

7.5 Donations1. Researchers: PROFESSOR DONG-KE ZHANG

Period: 2nd April 2005 to 31st December 2006Title: Donation by Natural Action Result Pty LtdTotal Funding: $25,000Organisation: Naturel Action Results Pty Ltd

7.6 Internal Grants1. Researchers: DR VISHNU PAREEK

Period: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2005Title: Process simulations and revamp of Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC)

UnitsTotal Funding: $10,000Organisation: Curtin University of Technology

2. Researchers: DR SHAOBIN WANG Period: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2005Title: Microwave-Assisted Synthesis and Combinatorial Chemistry for

Catalyst Design and Evaluation.Total Funding: $10,000Organisation: Curtin University of Technology

3. Researchers: MR IAIN MURRAY

Period: 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2005

Title: Supporting Vision Impaired Students at Curtin University.

Total Funding: $79,980

Organisation: Curtin University of Technology

8. Scholarships APA

1. Andrew King PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

2. Mark Pitman PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

3. Mahasa Ghaeli MEng (Chemical Engineering)

4. Carl Juhani Rouhiainen MEng (Chemical Engineering)

APA and AJ Parker CRC5. Hoang Anh Tung PhD (Chemical Engineering)

APAI 6. Matthew Christian Trigg (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

7. James William Darbyshire (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

APA & MERIWA Top Up Scholarship8. Annika Gillgren PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

AusAID Australian Development Scholarships9. Johan Utomo MEng (Chemical Engineering)

10. Hanny Hosiana Tumbelaka (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

11. Ahmad Agus Setiawan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Centre for Fuels, Energy and Environmental Technology, WA12. Ferry Rustandi PhD (Chemical Engineering)

Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing13. Majid Ghiafeh Davoodi PhD (Civil and Construction Engineering)

14. Peerapong Jitsangiam PhD (Civil and Construction Engineering)

15. Shah Khalid MEng (Civil and Construction Engineering)

CIRTS – Curtin International Tuition Scholarship16. Zhenhe Song PhD (Civil and Construction Engineering)

17. Majid Ghiafeh Davoodi PhD (Civil and Construction Engineering)

18. Meining Song PhD (Chemical Engineering)

CIRTS and Industrial Funded19. Iwan Hwan PhD (Chemical Engineering)

CUPS20. Peter Scarfe PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

21. George Tetlow PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

Curtin University22. Veena Doshi PhD (Chemical Engineering)

23. Tejas Bhatelia PhD (Chemical Engineering)

24. Abbas Razavimanesh PhD (Chemical Engineering)

Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Endeavour IPRS)25. Marjan Ladjavardi PhD (Electrical and Power Engineering)

26. Duc Son Pham PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Indonesian Cultural Communication27. Subriyer Nasir PhD (Chemical Engineering)

28. Novia PhD (Chemical Engineering)29. Tuty Agustina PhD (Chemical Engineering)

30. Abdullah Saleh PhD (Chemical Engineering)Iranian Embassy + Department of Chemical Engineering

31. Mohammad Haghighi Parapari PhD (Chemical Engineering)PTT Exploration and Production Public Co Ltd

32. Wangdhamkoom Panitan MEng (Mechanical Engineering)

TPSDP SPMU - National Institute of Technology Bandung33. Agus Saptoro MEng (Chemical Engineering)

TPSDP SPMU - Paulus Indonesian Christian University34. Mikail Lumentut MEng (Mechanical Engineering)

TPSDP SPMU - Syiah Kuala University35. Abrar Muslim MEng (Chemical Engineering)36. Syaifullah Muhammad MEng (Chemical Engineering)

TPSDP SPMU - University Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta37. Sudarisman PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

38. Aris Widyo Nugroho PhD (Mechanical Engineering)

TPSDP SPMU - Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University39. Richard Ruskit Gunawan PhD (Chemical Engineering)

TPSDP SPMU - 40. Dedet Riawan MEng (Electrical and Computer Engineering)41. Tajuddin Waris PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Woodside Foundation for Petroleum Research42. Dana Honer Badi Nazhat PhD (Chemical Engineering)

9. Research Supervision

9.1 Doctor of Philosophy – Completed1. Muhammad

ArshadRemnant Life Estimation Model Using Fuzzy Logic for Power Transformer Asset Management.

Supervisor: Professor Syed IslamCo-Supervisor: Dr Halit Eren

2. Jianwei He A Study of Planar Inverted F Antennas in a Dielectric Enclosure.

Supervisor: Professor Kah-Seng ChungCo-Supervisor: Dr Chun Fung

3. Duc Son Pham Robust Estimation of Signals in Heavy Tailed Noise.

Supervisor: Dr Yee-Hong LeungCo-Supervisor: Mr Ramon Brcich

4. Shum, Wai Sun Vibration Frequencies of Whirling Rods and Rotating Annuli.

Supervisor: Dr Rodney EntwistleCo-Supervisor: Associate Professor Ian Howard

9.2 Doctor of Philosophy – In Progress1. Jason Paul Gray The Resilient Modulus of Western

Australian Clays and Potential Correlation to General Classification Testing.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan

2. Yuen Yan Chong The Engineering Characterstics of Peat in Sarawak.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan

3. Syed Mahtab Ali Engineering Water Management Strategies For Irrigated Catchments Of The Southwest Of Western Australia.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Riasat Ali

4. Kok Peng Hong Utilisation of Red Sand in Pavement Engineering.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Paul Kong

5. Muthuramalingam Jaya Kumar

Assessment of Wave Impact Loads and Strength of Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected to Lateral Loads.

Supervisor: Professor Vijay RanganCo-Supervisor:Dr Krish Thiagarajan

6. Zarnaz Mehryar Stability of Spudcan Foundations during Deep Penetration.

Supervisor: Dr Yuxia HuCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

7. James Murray Aldred

Water Transport Due to Wick Action Through Concrete.

Supervisor: Professor Vijay RanganCo-Supervisor:Professor Nicholas Buenfeld

8. Ali Mohammed Darabi Golshani

Statistical Analysis of Road Crash Data for Gulf Countries with a Particular Reference to Iran.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan

9. Muhammad Junaid Siddiqi

Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques for Monitoring and Predicting Land Degradation and Impacts of Engineering Solutions in an Area.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan Dr Riasat Ali Dr Waqar Ahmad

10. Mohamed Sahgiar A Ismail

Two Phase Separation of Gross Pollutants Using Centrifugal Force.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Kazim Raza

11. Adnan M S H Shiyab

Optimization of the Outputs of the Evaluation Results of Flexible Pavement Condition Indicators for the Purpose of Determining the Maintenance and Rehabilitation Needs.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan

12. Wai Tuck Seck Rehabilitation, Repair and Strengthening of Timber Bridges Using Externally Bonded Carbon Fibre Fabric.

Supervisor: Dr Ian ChandlerCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

13. Pontjo Utomo Constitutive Behaviour of Cemented Carbonate Soil.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan

14. Fitri Nugraheni A model for construction safety assessment.

Supervisor: Professor David ScottCo-Supervisor:Dr Ian Chandler

15. Miftahul Fauziah An Elastoplastic Shear Fracture Model For Overconsolidated Clay.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan

16. Albani Musyafa Stakeholders' Satisfaction With Civil Engineering Graduates.

Supervisor: Professor David ScottCo-Supervisor:Dr Susan Gribble

17. Ee Hui Chang Behaviour of Reinforced Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete Beams.

Supervisor: Dr Prabir SarkerCo-Supervisor:Dr Natalie Lloyd

18. Peerapong Jitsangiam

Performance, Evaluation, and Enhancement of Red Sand for Road Bases, Embankments, and Seawall Fills.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Mr Evan Jamieson

19. Majid Ghiafeh Davoodi

Long Term Stability Of Concrete Made From Red Sand In A Marine Environment.

Supervisor: A/Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Mr Evan Jamieson

20. Zhenhe Song Pullout Behaviour of Suction Embedded Plate Anchors in Clay.

Supervisor: Dr Yuxia HuCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

21. Elsayed Abdelrady Oraby

Gold leaching in thiosulfate solutions and its environmental effects Compared with Cyanide.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Richard Browner

22. Santiago Asas Abueva Jr

Engineering Properties For Estimation Of Characteristic Ground Movement (CGM) Of Expansive Clays In Perth Region.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

23. Jayantha Ranasooriya

Reliability of Rock Mass Classification Systems Underground Rock Reinforcement and Support Design Tools.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Natalie Lloyd

24. Hamid Khabbaz Saberi

Hydraulic Characterstics and Performance of Stormwater Pollutant Trap respect to Weir's height, flow gradients, pipe diameters and pollutant capture.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

25. Stjepan Maticevic Optimised Power Management System for Off-shore Oil and Gas Production Facilities.

Supervisor: Associate Professor William LawranceCo-Supervisor:Professor Syed Islam

26. Jing Xian Mei A MAC Protocol for Multimedia Traffic in A TDD-WCDMA System.

Supervisor: Professor Kah-Seng ChungCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Mohan Kumar

27. Iain Murray Multi-Modal User Interfaces In eLearning For The Vision Impaired.

Supervisor: Dr Douglas MyersCo-Supervisor:Dr Brian Von Konsky

28. Wong Wei-Juet The Impact of Transmission Line Termination on Radiated Emissions.

Supervisor: Dr Kevin FynnCo-Supervisor:Professor Antonio Cantoni

29. Gregory Paul Day Receiver Structures for High Speed Wireless Communications.

Supervisor: Professor Sven NordholmCo-Supervisor:MS Hai Dam

30. Steven Martijn Van Der Werf

Network Architecture for a Wireless Ad Hoc Multi-hop Wide Area Network.

Supervisor: Professor Kah-Seng ChungCo-Supervisor:Mr William Lau

31. Andrew James Calkin

Automatic Classification and Detection Using Time-Frequency Analysis.

Supervisor: Dr Yee-Hong LeungCo-Supervisor:Dr Ahmedi Kayhan Professor Abdelhak Zoubir Dr Canicious Abeynayake

32. Alan Davis Speech Enhancement with Application to Automatic Speech Recognition.

Supervisor: Professor Sven Nordholm

33. Andrew Pasquale A Secure Dual Channel Wireless Headset for Multi-User Environments.

Supervisor: Dr Douglas MyersCo-Supervisor:Professor Kah-Seng Chung Mr Iain Murray

34. Matthew Christian Trigg

Control and Interfacing of Bi-Directional Inverters for Distributed Generation.

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Mr Hooman Dehbonei

35. Michael Darby Using Advanced Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Techniques and Architectures to Create Interactive Learning Environments.

Supervisor: Dr Douglas MyersCo-Supervisor:Dr Shelley Yeo

36. Jinfei Xie Optimization Method for Analysis and Design of Digital Systems.

Supervisor: Dr Weiyong YanCo-Supervisor:Dr Zhuquan Zang

37. Mashury Multicarrier CDMA Wireless Communication Systems: Analysis and Optimisation of Carrier Frequency, Channel Estimation and Detection.

Supervisor: Dr Roy HowardCo-Supervisor:Professor Abdelhak Zoubir Dr Yee-Hong Leung Mr Hassan Ali

38. Rajitha Bandara Palipana

A Direct-Conversion Receiver For DVB-T.

Supervisor: Professor Kah-Seng Chung

39. Xiao Lin Hu Stability of Networked Control Systems: Analysis of Packet Dropping.

Supervisor: Dr Weiyong Yan Co-Supervisor:Dr Wan-Quan Liu

40. Olusegun Abiola Aboaba

High-Resolution Multipath Channel Parameter Estimation Using Wavelet Analysis.

Supervisor: Professor Kah-Seng ChungCo-Supervisor:Professor Bernard Fleury

41. Hanny Hosiana Tumbelaka

A grid current-controlling shunt active power filter using polarised ramptime current control.

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Dr Lawrence Borle

42. Gajanana Krishna Hegde

Modular Hybrid Energy System for Waste Treatment and Power Generation.

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Dr Phatap Pullammappallil

43. Md. Saiful Islam PV-diesel Hybrid Power System for Rural Electrification

Supervisor: Professor Syed IslamCo-Supervisor:Dr Mohammad Sherkat Masoum

44. Tajuddin Waris Variable Speed Diesel Power Generation System Using A Doubly Fed Induction Generator.

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Mr Hooman Dehbonei

45. Waseem Ahmed An Improved Co-Design Procedure For Embedded Systems.

Supervisor: Dr Douglas MyersCo-Supervisor:Dr Thierry Goubier

46. Samuel Panggalo Adaptive Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex In Power Line Communication.

Supervisor: Professor Kah-Seng ChungCo-Supervisor:Professor Chemmangot Nayar

47. Faisal Obaid Hassan Al-Ayyan

Blind Channel Estimation by Exploiting Spatial Diversity in OFDM Systems.

Supervisor: Dr Yee-Hong LeungCo-Supervisor:Professor Abdelhak Zoubir

48. Samir Abdullah Al Busaidi

Broadband Power Line Communications Using Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum.

Supervisor: Professor Kah-Seng ChungCo-Supervisor:Professor Chemmangot Nayar

49. Marjan Ladjavardi Improving Small-Signal Stability Of Power Systems In The Presence Of Harmonies Using A Modified Universal Power Line Conditioner (UPLC).

Supervisor: Dr Mohammad Sherkat MasoumCo-Supervisor:Professor Syed Islam

50. Agus Ulinuha Optimal Dispatch Of LTC And Switched Shunt Capacitors In Distorted Distribution Networks

Supervisor: Dr Mohammad Sherkat MasoumCo-Supervisor:Professor Syed Islam

51. Muhammad Kusban

Digital Watermarking on Video. Supervisor: Dr Douglas MyersCo-Supervisor:Dr Yee-Hong Leung

52. Hai Quang Hong Dam

Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement Using Spatial-Spectral Information.

Supervisor: Professor Sven NordholmCo-Supervisor:Dr Zhuquan Zang

53. Ahmad Agus Setiawan

Application Of Voltage-Controlled And Current-Controlled Voltage Source Inverters In AC-Coupling Minigrid Hybrid Power Systems.

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Mr Hooman Dehbonei

54. James William Darbyshire

Multi-Function Power Electronic Interface For Hybrid Mini-Grid Systems

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Mr Hooman Dehbonei

55. Muhammad Sheikh Sadi

Co-Design of Embedded Multiprocessor Systems

Supervisor: Dr Douglas Myers

56. Van Vuong Adaptive Nero Wavelet Network Controller For A Continuous Crystallization Process.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Yu Chu Tian

57. Carl Juhani Rouhiainen

Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm For Optimal Scheduling of Chlorine Dosing Considering Disinfection Criteria, Aesthetic Criteria and Pump Operation in Water Distribution Systems.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Yu Chu Tian

58. Parviz Safaeefar Crystallisation of Manganese Sulphate from Mixed Solvents.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ha-Ming AngCo-Supervisor: Professor Moses Tade

59. Rebecca Jane Lievense

Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics to Predict Production Performance of Thin Oil Rim Reservoirs.

Supervisor: Dr Vishnu PareekCo-Supervisor:Professor Moses Tade

60. Sandra Anni Setyowati Wibawanta

Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Propylene for Acrolein Production.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:A/Professor Ha-Ming Ang

61. Tung Anh Hoang Effects of Some Organic Substrates and Process Parameters in Scale Formation in Pipes.

Supervisor: A/Professor Ha-Ming AngCo-Supervisor:Dr Andrew Rohl

62. Alexander Dean Elliot

An Investigation Into The Hydrothermal Processing Of Coal Fly Ash To Produce Zeolite For Controlled Release Fertiliser Applications.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hong Yan

63. Ng Lai Kit Characterisation of Australian Coal for Power Generation Applications.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hongwei Wu

64. Wee Hui Ling Collie Coal Ash Deposition And Its Relation To Boiler Operation And Performance

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hongwei Wu

65. Ferry Rustandi Volatilisation of Potassium During Pyrolysis of Biomass

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hongwei Wu

66. Monica Gumulya Spheres falling in a viscoplastic fluid. Supervisor: EProfessor Richard HorsleyCo-Supervisor:Dr Vishnu Pareek

67. Nina Darmawan Optimisation Of Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 3-D Simulations

Supervisor: Dr Vishnu PareekCo-Supervisor:Professor Moses Tade

68. Congli Cheng Design and CFD Simulation of Pipe Reactors for the Pre-treatment of Refractory Gold Ores.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Vishnu Pareek

69. Veena A Doshi Arun Kumar Doshi

Investigation into Ash Related Issues during Co-Combustion of Coal and Biomass: Development of a Co-Firing Advisory Tool.

Supervisor: Dr Hari VuthaluruCo-Supervisor:Dr Rajender Gupta

70. Chan Yii Leng Development of new Catalysts for Production of Clean Transportation Fuels from Solid Fuels

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke Zhan

71. Ngu Ling Ngee Mineralogical and Combustion Principles for Maximising Cenosphere Formation During Pulverised Coal Combustion.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hongwei Wu

72. Yip Kong Vui Pyrolysis of Collie Coal to Produce Coal Char for Metallurgical Applications.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hongwei Wu

73. Tuty Emilia Agustina

Comparison of various advanced oxidation processes for the treatment of winery wastewater

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ha-Ming AngCo-Supervisor:Dr Vishnu Pareek

74. Subriyer Nasir Wastewater Reuse Using Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant.

Supervisor: Dr Hari VuthaluruCo-Supervisor:Dr Zhonghua Zhu

75. Novia The CFD Simulation of Fluid Catalytic Cracking.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Martyn RayCo-Supervisor:Dr Vishnu Pareek

76. Richard Ruskit Gunawan

Interaction Between Ammonium Nitrate Based Explosives and Pyritic Black Shales.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Sawsan Freij

77. Qiang Fu Mallee-derived Biomass Materials for the production of Renewable Bio-fuels by Gasification Process

Supervisor: Dr Hongwei WuCo-Supervisor:Dr Shaobin Wang

78. Mahsa Ghaeli Modelling and Scheduling of Batch and Mixed Batch/Continuous Process Plants Using Petri Nets.

Supervisor: Dr Vishnu PareekCo-Supervisor:Dr Parisa Bahri

79. Abbas Razavimanesh

Process Flowsheeting of a Hybrid Nickel Leach Circuit.

Supervisor: Dr Vishnu PareekCo-Supervisor:Dr John Rumball

80. Mohammad Haghighi Parapari

Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane for Direct Conversion of Natural Gas to Methanol.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr John Bromly

81. Kailash Singh Nonlinear Control of Multiphase Reactors.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Vishnu Pareek

82. Nurul Widiastuti Treatment of Household Grey Water Using Natural Zeolites.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hongwei Wu

83. Muhammad Abid Akhtar

Dynamic CFD Simulations and Scale Up of Three-Phase Bubble Column Slurry Reactor for Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) Technology.

Supervisor: Dr Vishnu PareekCo-Supervisor:Professor Moses Tade

84. Setyawati Yani Sulphur Transformation During Coal Utilisation Processes.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hong Yan

85. Ashfaq Ahmed Mirza

Synthetic Fuels from Natural Gas with the Application of Fischer-Tropsch Reaction.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor: Dr Vishnu Pareek

86. Meining Song The role of moisture in the oxidation of pyritic shale at low temperatures.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Sawsan Freij

87. Iwan Harsono Hwan

Heat transfer mechanisms in an indirectly heated rotary kiln with lifters and its role in scaling.

Supervisor: Dr Hongwei WuCo-Supervisor:Professor Dong-Ke Zhang

88. Andrew James Campbell King

Heat Transfer Enhancement and Fluid Flow Characteristics Associated with Jet Impingement Cooling.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Tilak ChandratillekeCo-Supervisor:Professor Anthony Lucey

89. Peter Craig Scarfe Neural Network Training Of Deaf-Blind Sign Language To Artificial Humanoid Hands.

Supervisor: Dr Euan Lindsay

90. Mark William Pitman

Numerical Simulation of Rotational Flow over a Flexible Boundary.

Supervisor: Dr Anthony LuceyCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Ian Howard

91. Mark Thomas Rank

Investigation Of Axial Fatigue Of WC-Co Cemented Carbides.

Supervisor: Dr Garry LeadbeaterCo-Supervisor:Dr Ian Davies

92. John Michael Gibbons

Mechanisms of Conveltive Heat Transfer and Secondary Flow Instability in Externally Heated Curved Fluid Flow Passages.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Tilak ChandratillekeCo-Supervisor:Dr Anthony Lucey

93. Brian Boswell Cutting Tool Characteristics In Dry And Semi-Dry Machining Process.

Supervisor: A/Professor Tilak Chandratilleke

94. George Arthur Tetlow

Modelling Human Upper Airway Dynamics and Dysfunction.

Supervisor: Dr Anthony LuceyCo-Supervisor:A/Professor Tilak Chandratilleke

95. Annika Maria Gillgren

Wireless Transmission for Intelligent Well Monitoring Systems.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ian HowardCo-Supervisor:Dr Rodney Entwistle

96. Libae Bang Thermal Enhancement with Thin Liquid Film Evaporation for Compact Heat Exchanger Applications.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Tilak Chandratilleke

97. Sudarisman Flexural Behaviour of Hybrid Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Matrix Composites.

Supervisor: Dr Ian DaviesCo-Supervisor:Dr Garry Leadbeater

98. Aris Widyo Nugroho

Investigation of the Production and Mechanical Properties of Porous & Titanium Alloy Compacts Prepared by Powder Metallurgy Processes for Biomedical Applications.

Supervisor: Dr Garry LeadbeaterCo-Supervisor:Dr Ian Davies

99. Alexander Elliott An Investigation Into The Hydrothermal Processing Of Coal Fly Ash To Produce Zeolite For Controlled Release Fertiliser Applications.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Hong-Ming Yan

9.3 Masters by Research – Complete1. Ade Wahyuni Sustainable Use of Residual Bauxite

Tailings Sand (Red Sand) in Concrete.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Superviso r: Dr Natalie Lloyd

2. Benoit Chellen A New Approach to Wireless LAN Design Based on Empirical Performance Analysis.

Supervisor: Dr Douglas MyersCo-Supervisor: Mr Iain Murray

3. Saoud Humaid Salim Al Shoaili

Internet-Based Monitoring and Controlling of Real-Time Dynamic Systems.

Supervisor: Dr Halit ErenCo-Supervisor: Dr Stephen Ho

4. Matlou Mofana The Influence of Welding Parameters on Induced Residual Stress and Fatigure Properties of Thin Mig Welded Aluminium Plate

Supervisor: Dr Garry Leadbeater

9.4 Masters by Research – In Progress1. Abrar Muslim Optimisation Of Chlorine Dosing For

Water Distribution Using Model-BasedPredictive Control.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Qin Li

2. Rahul Sobransingh Patel

Optimisation And Control Of Reactive Batch Distillation Column For Ethyl Acetate Synthesis.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Vishnu Pareek

3. Syaifullah Muhammad

Synthesis And Application Of Nanozeolites.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Shaobin Wang

4. Johan Utomo Wavelet-based modelling of multidimensional crystallization process.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Mrs Nicoleta Balliu

5. Dana Honer Badi MNazhat

Developing A Water Treatment System For Subsea Gas Processing Plant.

Supervisor: Professor Robert AminCo-Supervisor:Dr Nimalan Gnanendran

6. Angelina Rossiter Crystallisation of Ammonium Nitrate and its Implications in Emulsion BasedIndustrial Explosives.

Supervisor: Professor Dong-Ke ZhangCo-Supervisor:Dr Sawsan Freij

7. Salman Masud Applying Process Intensification in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Vishnu Pareek

8. Thanet Terdkiatburana

Simultaneous Removal Process For Humic Acids And Metal ions By Adsorption.

Supervisor: Professor Moses TadeCo-Supervisor:Dr Shaobin Wang

9. Owen Kruger Applications of CFD to the petroleum industry: getting under the steel skin of unit ops.

Supervisor: Dr Vishnu PareekCo-Supervisor:Professor Moses Tade

10. Denzil Rao Optimum Engineering Uses Of Coal Fly Ash, Furnace Bottom Ash And Spent FCC Catalyst In Western Australia.

Supervisor: A/Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Natalie Lloyd

11. Paisar The Constitutive Testing of Hard Soils - Soft Rocks.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan Mr Mahfooz Soomro

12. Ahmad Nasir Environmental and Economic Impactsof Industrial Wastes (Fly Ash) and Its Utilization as Soil Erosion Control and Soil Conditioner.

Supervisor: A/Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Dr Azam Khan

13. Jun Lin Failure of Buildings. Supervisor: Professor David ScottCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

14. Alan Jones Use Of Red Sand For Stabilised Landfill And Other Uses.

Supervisor: A/Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Norman Stockton

15. Shelly Attiwell Leach Testing of Red Lime and Alkaloam in Various Environments.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor:Mr Evan Jamieson Dr Robert Summers

16. Kamal Khalil Water Surface Profile Modelling for Pinjarra Flood Diversion Channel and Economic Evaluation of Assets at Risk from Flooding.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

17. Ronney Joseph Supervisor: Dr Kaniraj Shenbaga

18. Shah Khalid Sustainable Use Of Residual Bauxite Tailings (Red Sand) In Concrete.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Hamid NikrazCo-Supervisor: Dr Natalie LloydMr Evan Jamieson

19. Aaron Cheung Implementation of Adaptive Security Protocols in a Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network.

Supervisor: Mr Michael DarbyCo-Supervisor:Dr Douglas Myers

20. Yuwen Jian Peak-To-Average Power Ratio Reduction of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Signals.

Supervisor: Dr Weiyong YanCo-Supervisor: Dr Zhuquan Zang

21. Samer Chami On the Development of Vegetable-Oil-Based Dielectric Liquid for Oil Filled Distribution and Power Transformers.

Supervisor: Professor Syed IslamCo-Supervisor: Dr Mohammed Amanullah

22. Rebecca Bignell Improving the Reliability and Conspicuity of Actively Controlled Level Crossings.

Supervisor: Associate Professor William LawranceCo-Supervisor:Mr Clive Maynard

23. Robertus Susanto-Lee

Efficiency Improvements For Small-Scale Reverse-Osmosis Systems.

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Mr Hooman Dehbonei

24. Martin Laszkiewicz Autonomous Learning of high-level behaviour is Intelligent Agents.

Supervisor: Mr Michael DarbyCo-Supervisor:Dr Douglas Myers

25. Dedet Riawan Parallel Power Transfer-based Converter For High Efficiency Stand-alone Photovoltaic Generation System.

Supervisor: Professor Chemmangot NayarCo-Supervisor:Mr Hooman Dehbonei

26. Annadonnah Lim Ai Lin

A Study of Multicarrier Modulation Systems.

Supervisor: Professor Sven NordholmCo-Supervisor: MS Hai Dam

27. Yu Zhao Reverse Osmosis Desalination In Renewable Energy Mini Power SupplyGrid.

Supervisor: Professor Chem NayarCo-Supervisor: Mr Hooman Dehbonei

28. Xu Liu Reliability Evaluation of Hybrid Wind-Diesel Power System.

Supervisor: Professor Syed Islam

29. Xuan Zhang Automation. Supervisor: Dr Cesar Ortega-SanchezCo-Supervisor:Mr Iain Murray

30. Victor Le Network Approach to Dynamic Terrainand Objects in a Simulation or Gaming Environment.

Supervisor: Dr Douglas MyersCo-Supervisor:Mr Michael Darby Mr Iain Murray

31. Kumarapelige Nishantha Sanathkumara

Low-cost, Wireless Network of Micro-controllers.

Supervisor: Dr Samuel CuberoCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Ian Howard

32. Tuan Nguyen Dynamic Modelling of Welded and Reinforced Aluminium Plate Structures.

Supervisor: Dr Kian TehCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Ian Howard

33. Panitan Wangdhamkoom

Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Ribbed Passages.

Supervisor: Dr Ramesh NarayanaswamyCo-Supervisor:Associate Professor Tilak Chandratilleke

34. Chuan Wen Chi The Study of the Individual Torsional Mesh Stiffness in Gear Transmission Systems.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ian HowardCo-Supervisor:Dr Rodney Entwistle

35. Bruce Huizinga The Influence of Rolling Element Bearing Characteristics on Gearbox Vibration.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ian HowardCo-Supervisor:Dr Rodney Entwistle

36. Paul Gould Supervisor: Associate Professor Ian HowardCo-Supervisor:Dr Halit Eren

37. Mikail Fortuna Lumentut

PZT Plate Modelling For Energy Harvesting Using Analytical And FiniteElement Analysis

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ian HowardCo-Supervisor:Dr Kian Teh

38. Abdullah Saleh Winery Wastewater Treatment Using a Flat Panel Airlift Photo-bioreactor with Mixture of algae and Bacteria

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ming Ang Co-Supervisor:Professor Moses Tade

10. International Conference Participation

10.1 Academic Staff1. Associate Professor Tilak

Chandratilleke4th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT 2005)Cairo, Egypt

2. Associate Professor Tilak Chandratilleke

5th Pacific-Asia Rim Thermal Sciences and Energy Engineering Workshop (PaRTSEE-5)Auckland, New Zealand

3. Dr Ian Davies The 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PacRim6)Maui, U.S.A.

4. Dr Ian Davies The 9th Japan International SAMPE Symposium (JISSE-9)Tokyo, Japan

5. Dr Ian Davies The 18th International Symposium on Ceramics in Medicine (Bioceramics 18)Kyoto, Japan

6. Dr Sam Cubero M2VIP Machine Vision ConferenceManila, Philipines

7. Dr M Nazrul Islam International conference on Recent Advances in Material Processing TechnologyTamilnadu, India

8. Mr Brian Boswell 18th International Conference on Production ResearchFisciani (SA), Italy

9. Mr Iain Murray Annual Asia Pacific Academy Council ConferenceBangkok, Thailand

10. Mr Iain Murray Apple Computers World Wide Developers ConferenceSan Francisco, USA

11. Dr Doug Myers Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning and CyberneticsGuangzhou, China

12. Professor Chemmangot Nayar

IASTED International Conference on Energy and Power Systems Krabi, Thailand

13. Professor Chemmangot Nayar

International Conference on Power ElectronicsIndia

14. Dr Kelvin Tan 7th International Power Engineering ConferenceSingapore

15. Dr King-Sun Chan IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR’05)Kowloon, Hong Kong

16. Dr Halit Eren IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference 2005 (SICON’05)Houston, Texas, USA

17. Professor Syed Islam International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’05)Dhaka, Bangladesh

18. Professor Syed Islam 15th IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids (ICDL’05)Coimbro, Portugal

19. Dr Roy Howard 18th International Conference on Noise and Fluctions (ICNF’05)Salamanca, Spain

20. Associate Professor William Lawrance

ANZSESDunedin, New Zealand

21. Associate Professor William Lawrance

20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Barcelona, Spain

22. Dr Yuxia Hu International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in GeomechanicsItaly

23. Dr Prabir Sarker Geopolymer World Congress 2005San Quentin, France

24. Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

The 1st Int Conf on Traffic Accidents, University of TehranTehran, Iran

25. Associate Professor Hamid Nikraz

The 11th Int Conf on Fracture ICFFIITorino, Italy

26. Dr Natalie Lloyd 7th International Symposium on Utilization of High-Strength/High Performance Concrete RegistrationWashington , USA

27. Professor Moses TadéDr Hari VuthaluruDr Nicoleta BalliuDr Shaobin Wang

World Chemical Engineering CongressGlasgow

28. Professor Moses TadéProfessor Ha-Ming AngDr Vishnu Pareek

Chemcon 2005New Delhi

29. Dr Qin Li Waste Engineering 2005Albi, France

30. Dr Qin Li The 3rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Processing Technologies

31. Professor Dong-Ke Zhang Many Destinations for various conferences

32. Dr Shaobin Wang Third International Zeolite Symposium (3rd FEZA)Prague, Czech

10.2 Research Associates/Students

1. Mr Rajitha Palipana IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and SystemsKobe, Japan

2. Mr Muhammad Arshad 8th IASTED Conference on Power and Energy Systems, PES 2005Marina, CA, USA

3. Mr Muhammad Arshad IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology ConferenceOttawa, Canada

4. Mr Scott Hollier Apple Computers World Wide Developers Conference

San Francisco, USA

11. National Conference Travel

11.1 Academic Staff

1. Associate Professor Tilak ChandratillekeMr John GibbonsDr Ramesh NarayanaswamyMr Andrew King

8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer ConferencePerth, Western Australia

2. Dr Kian Teh Mr Euan Lindsay

4th Global Colloquium on Engineering EducationSydney, New South Wales

3. Mr Euan Lindsay Making a Difference, 2005 Evaluations and Assessment ConferenceSydney, New South Wales

4. Mr Euan LindsayProfessor Tony Lucey

Teaching and Learning Forum, Murdoch UniversityPerth, Western Australia

5. Mr Brian Boswell International Manufacturing Leaders ForumAdelaide, South Australia

6. Dr Rodney EntwistleAssociate Professor Ian Howard

4th Australasian Congress on Applied MechanicsMelbourne, Victoria

7. Mr Clive Maynard 4th Global Colloquium on Engineering EducationSydney, New South Wales

8. Mr Iain Murray Apple University Consortium Academic & Developers ConferenceHobart, Tasmania

9. Professor Chemmangot Nayar

Appropriate Technology Retailers Association of Australia (ATRAA 2005)Glenelg, South Australia

10. Professor Chemmangot Nayar

National Conference and Exhibition for the Australian Business Council for Sustainable EnergyMelbourne, Victoria

11. Dr Cesar Ortega-Sanchez International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC 2005)Perth, Western Australia

12. Dr Hooman Dehbonei Australian Universities Power Engineering Conference, (AUPEC’05)Hobart, Tasmania

13. Professor Syed Islam Australian Universities Power Engineering Conference, (AUPEC’05)Hobart, Tasmania

14. Associate Professor William Lawrance

AAEESydney, New South Wales

15. Dr Yee Hong Leung 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications (ISSPA 2005)Sydney, New South Wales

16. Dr Yuxia Hu Curtin Engineering Research ForumPerth, Western Australia

17. Dr Yuxia Hu International Conference on Frontiers in Offshore GeomechanicsPerth, Western Australia

18. Dr Natalie Lloyd 22nd Biennial Conference Melbourne, Victoria

19. Professor Moses TadéAssocaite Ha-Ming AngDr Vishnu PareekDr Hari VuthaluruDr Nicoleta BalliuDr Hong Wei Wu

Chemeca 2005Brisbane, Queensland

20. Dr Hong Wei Wu Bioenergy AustraliaMelbourne, Victoria

11.2 Research Associates/Students

1. Miss Ruchi Permvattana Apple AUC Academic and Development ConferenceHobart, Tasmania

2. Mr Xu Liu Australian Universities Power Engineering Conference, (AUPEC’05)Hobart, Tasmania

3. Mr Shane McAliiece Apple AUC Academic and Development ConferenceHobart, Tasmania

12. International Visitors to the FacultyVisitor Organisation Purpose1. Dr Han China Gearing Institute

P R ChinaResearch Collaboration with Associate Professor Ian Howard on Gearbox Dynamic Modelling

2. Professor Carpenter Warwick University United Kingdom

Research Collaboration with Professor Tony Lucey on Flow-Structure Interaction

3. Professor Richard Goldstein

University of MinnesotaUSA

Australasian Heat & Mass Transfer Conference

4. Professor Gian Piero Celata

ENEAItaly

Australasian Heat & Mass Transfer Conference

5. Professor Ryosuke Suzuki

Kyoto University JapanJapan

Australasian Heat & Mass Transfer Conference

6. Professor N.E Wijeyasundera

National University of SingaporeSingapore

Australasian Heat & Mass Transfer Conference

7. Dr Hayam Al-Yasiri University of TechnologyBaghdad, Iraq

Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow

8. Thomas Gasser Salzburg University of Applied SciencesSalzburg

Occupational Trainee

9. Clemens Jauch Aalborg UniversityDenmark

Visiting Scholar

10. Sung Hun Ko Kunsan National UniversityKorea

Research Fellow

11. Professor Seyong Ryong Lee

Kunsan National UniversityKorea

Visiting Research Fellow

12. Associate Professor Worawit Tayati

Chiang Mai UniversityThailand

Visiting Associate Professor

13. Professor Huangshui Zhang

Shenzhen Graduate School of HITP R China

Visiting Research Fellow

14. Shuwen Zhou P R China Visiting Scholar

15. Asakuma Yusuke University of HyogoJapan

One year post doctoral research with Ming Ang

16. Professor Yan Feng Lin Northern China Electric Power UniversityP R China

Coal Combustion Simulation with Dr Hongwei Wu

17. Professor Jianping Sun Northern China Electric Power UniversityP R China

Control of Crystallisation Process with Professor Moses Tadé

18. Mr Gero Weber FH-Mannheim GermanGermany

Biomass Gasification with Dr Hongwei Wu

19. Dr Zuocheng Zhou National University of SingaporeSingapore

Process Modelling and Simulation with Dr Qin Li

20. Dr Xiusong Zhao National University of SingaporeSingapore

Process Modelling and Simulation with Dr Qin Li

13. Seminars by External Speakers1. Professor P.W. Carpenter, Warwick University, UK

‘Biology-based drag reduction’ – 1st June 2005.

2. Dr Nawaf H. Saeid, Curtin-Sarawak, Malaysia ‘Fundamental Studies on convective heat transfer’ – 4th May 2005.

3. Professor D.P. Mason, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ‘Fracturing rock with ultra-high pressure water’ – 11th November 2005.

4. Dr Xiusong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore‘Photonic crystal synthesis and application’.

14. StaffingTable 1. Academic Staff in 2005

Name Title Highest Qualification

%EFT

Key Administration Responsibilities Key Research Area

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

1. Syed Islam Professor PhD 100 Head of Department/ EUE Course Coordinator

Power Engineering

2. Chemmangot Nayar Professor PhD 100 Discipline Leader

3. Mohammad Masoum Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Quality Panel Coordinator

4. Halit Eren Senior Lecturer PhD 100 International and 2nd yr Course Coordinator

5. Kelvin Tan Lecturer PhD 100 Course Coordinator

6. Hooman Dehobnie Lecturer PhD 100 Course Coordinator

7. Kah Chung Professor PhD 100 Discipline Leader

Electronics & Communications

Design/ Telecommunication and

Networking

8. Yee Hong Leung Senior Lecturer PhD 100 PGR Coordinator/PGC course Coordinator (T&N)

9. Roy Howard Senior Lecturer PhD 100

10. Wei-Yong Yan Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Course Coordinator

11. Abdelhak Zoubir Professor PhD 10

12. William Lawrance Associate Professor PhD 100 Discipline Leader

13. William Nichols Lecturer BEng 100Teaching & Learning Coordinator/Double degree Coordinator

14. Douglas Myers Senior Lecturer PhD 100Project coordinator/Course coordinator/EFY/Discipline Leader

Computer Systems Engineering and Computer

Systems & Networking

15. Cesar Ortega Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Community Liaison/EFY

16. King-Sun S Chan Lecturer PhD 100 Interuniversity PG conference/BTech

17. Iain Murray Associate Lecturer BEng 100 B.Tech Coordinator

18. Clive Maynard Senior Lecturer MEng 100 PG Course Coordinator/SLIIT Coordinator/EFY

19. Michael Darby Lecturer MEng 100

Department of Civil and Construction Engineering

1. Ian Chandler Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Unit CoordinatorTimber/Concrete/Design

Prestressed Concrete Structures

2. Prabir Sarker Lecturer PhD 100 T&L/WEBCT Coordinator/EFY

Concrete structuresWaste materials in

concreteGeopolymer concrete

3. Natalie Lloyd Lecturer Phd 60 Unit Coordinator Concrete durabilityHigh performance concrete

4. Kerri Bland Associate Lecturer BEng(Hons) 60 Unit Coordinator – 2nd Year

Concrete & Steel structures

Use of waste materials in concrete

Geopolymer concrete

5. Hamid Nikraz Associate Professor PhD 100 Director PG studies Geomechamics/

Transport/Geotextile

6. YuXia Hu Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Unit Coordinator – 3rd year Offshore Geomechanics

Name Title Highest Qualification

%EFT

Key Administration Responsibilities Key Research Area

7. David Scott Professor PhD 100 Head of DepartmentUnit Coordinator

Construction Management/Eng

Economics

8. David Redfern Senior Lecturer DipTech(Civil) 100 Timetabling/Civil Construction

Department of Chemical Engineering

1. Moses Tadé Professor PhD 100 Head of Department

Oil & Gas Mineral Processing

Biosystem EngineeringWater ResearchProcess Systems

Engineering

2. Dong-Ke Zhang Professor PhD 100 Director FEEWA

Coal, Oil, Gas and Biomass

Catalysis & Reaction Engineering

Mineral ProcessingThermal EngineeringEnergy Options and

Sustainability

3. Ming Ang Associate Professor PhD 100 International Students

Coordinator 2nd Year Advisor

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Biosystem EngineeringWater ResearchEnergy & Fuels

4. Martyn Ray Associate Professor PhD 100

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Water Research

5. Vishnu Pareek Senior Lecturer PhD 100 4th Year Advisor

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Biosystem EngineeringWater ResearchProcess Systems

Engineering

6. Hari Vuthaluru Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Undergraduate Coordinator and Year 1 advisor

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Water ResearchEnergy & Fuels

Thermal Engineering

7. Hongwei Wu Senior Lecturer PhD 100 3rd Year Advisor

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Biosystem EngineeringProcess Systems

Engineering

8. Xia Lou Senior Lecturer PhD 35 Biosystem EngineeringWater Research

9. Nicoleta Balliu Lecturer PhD 100

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Biosystem EngineeringWater ResearchProcess Systems

Engineering

10. Zhonghua Zhu Lecturer PhD 100 Mineral ProcessingWater Research

11. Qin Li Lecturer PhD 100

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Biosystem EngineeringWater ResearchProcess Systems

Engineering

Name Title Highest Qualification

%EFT

Key Administration Responsibilities Key Research Area

12. Shaobin Wang Curtin Research Fellow PhD 100

Oil & GasMineral Processing

Biosystem EngineeringWater Research

Department of Mechanical Engineering1. Tony Lucey Professor PhD 100 Dean of Engineering

Thermo-fluids2. Tilak Chandratilleke Associate Professor PhD 100 Head of Department

3. Ramesh Narayanaswamy Lecturer PhD 100 Final Year Project Coordinator

4. Ian Howard Associate Professor PhD 100 Director-Postgraduate Studies

Applied Mechanics5. Rodney Entwistle Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Director- Undergraduate Studies

6. Kian Teh Senior Lecturer PhD 100 Enrolment Officer-International

7. Laurie Morgan Senior Lecturer BEng 100 Enrolment Officer- Mechanical

8. Brian Boswell Lecturer BEng 100 Enrolment Officer-Mechanical Design/Manufacturing9. MN Nazrul Lecturer PhD 100

10. Garry Leadbeater Senior Lecturer PhD 100 EFY-DirectorMaterials

11. Ian Davies Research/Teaching Fellow PhD 100 Dept Web Coordinator

12. Graham Rogers Senior Lecturer PhD 100

Robotics/Automation

13. Sam Cubero Lecturer PhD 100 Enrolment Officer-Mechtronic

14. Euan Lindsay Lecturer PhD 100

15. Bradley Saracik Associate Lecturer BEng 100

Table 2. Emeritus Professors in 2005

Name Department1. Emeritus Professor Vijay Rangan Department of Civil Engineering

2. Emeritus Professor Richard Horsley Department of Mechanical Engineering

Table 3. Research Fellows in 2005

Name Research Area

1. Dr Shaobin WangReaction Engineering and design, Nanomaterials synthesis and applications, Catalytic Reactions, Methane conversion, Carbon dioxide recycling & Utilisation, Industrial Wastes Management and Utilisation, Environmental Engineering and Wastewater Treatment.

2. Dr Zhouoheng Zhou Colloid Science, Process Modelling & Simulation.3. Dr Rupa Vuthaluru CFT Modelling, Coal Combustion, Environmental Engineering. 4. Dr Hong-Ming Yan Coal - Aggregates5. Dr Sawsan Freij Mineral Reactions (Crystallization, dissolution), Scanning Probe Microscopy.6. Dr John Bromly Gas Combustion.7. Dr Yusuke Asakuma Crystallisation.

Table 4. General Staff in 2005

NAME POSITION

1. Diane Garth Administrative Officer, Civil Engineering2. Tammy Atkins Secretary, Civil Engineering

NAME POSITION3. Margaret Brown Administrative Officer, Mechanical Engineering4. Temporary/Relief Secretary, Mechanical Engineering5. Jennifer Thurling Administrative Officer, Electrical and Computer Engineering6. Margaret Pittuck Secretary, Officer, Electrical & Computer Engineering7. Jan Burnett WPO, Electrical & Computer Engineering8. Brenda Tipping Secretary, Chemical Engineering9. Jennifer Talbot Administrative Officer, Curtin Engineering Faculty10. Deborah Fukuyama Miri Liaison Officer11. Alana Hawkins Assignments Office12. Simret Habtemariam Assignments Office13. Michelle Cutinha Assistant to the Director, Common First Year14. Daniel Baines Technical Assistant 15. David Collier ( Acting Technical Officer) Technician16. Derek Oxley Technical Officer17. Frank Cicoria (Acting Technical Officer) Senior Technician18. Jeffrey Pickles (Acting Senior Technical Officer) Technical Officer19. Jim Sherlock Senior Technician20. John Murray (Acting Laboratory Manager)Technical Manager21. Karen Haynes Technical Officer22. Mark Fowler Technical Supervisor23. Michael Elliss (Acting Technical Officer) Senior Technician24. Peter Bruce Technical Officer25. Peter Harn Technician26. Robert Cutter (Acting Senior Technical Officer) Technical Officer27. Russell Wilkinson Technical Officer28. Serguei Mokroous Senior Technical Officer29. Zibby Cielma Senior Technical Officer30. Alison Smith IT Systems Development Officer31. Andrew Buttsworth IT Systems Development Officer32. Daniel Wilkin IT Manager33. David Chandler Workshop student overload (Technician )Officer34. Glenvill Abeywickrema IT Support Officer35. Graham Watson Workshop student overload ( Technician) Officer36. James Twentyman IT Support Officer37. Nathan Clay IT Helpdesk Officer38. Rhys Hollow IT Support Supervisor39. Ze Yien Wong IT Helpdesk Officer40. Ashley Hortle Technical Officer